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Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary Sources
• a letter written to your parents
• your friend’s diary/journal
• the teacher’s data on grades
• an original map
• a photograph taken by a person
• the U.S. Constitution
• a book written at the time of the event
• an email sent to a relative
• an autobiography
• a witness of an accident
• a documentary film
• a sound recording
Secondary Sources
• a dictionary
• a biography about a person
• an encyclopedia
• a timeline created by a historian
• text in Studies Weekly
• an interpretation of something
• an essay about a topic
• a book about a topic from the past
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