ER Denice D.

Catamora ECE2A June 10,2020

1. What are primary sources ?
 Primary Sources are immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who
had a direct connection with it. Primary sources can include: Texts of laws and
other original documents. Newspaper reports, by reporters who witnessed an
event or who quote people who did.
2. Give 10 examples of primary sources .
 Speeches
 scrapbooks
 published books, newspapers and magazine clippings published at the time
 government publications
 oral histories
 records of organizations
 autobiographies and memoirs
 printed ephemera
 artifacts, e.g. clothing, costumes, furniture
 research data, e.g. public opinion polls
3. Give 3 examples of primary sources in your community.
 News in our television
 News in our radio
 Letters from our family
4. Give 2 differences of primary and secondary sources.
 Primary sources are firsthand, contemporary accounts of events created by
individuals during that period of time or several years later. They contain raw
information and thus, must be interpreted by researchers while Secondary
sources are documents that relate to information that originated
elsewhere. Secondary sources often use generalizations, analysis, interpretation,
and synthesis of primary sources.
5. What are repositories?
 Repository is a place where things are stored for safe keeping, or where there is
an ample supply of something, or a person or thing with a lot of information about
something.
6. Give 2 importance of repositories in history.
 Through repositories, we can learn the past of our history by reading in a library
or asking someone who knows it.
 Also it will help us in research study or proposal.
7. Cite 3 repositories one finds in Davao City / your place and give its significance.
 Library in UIC. It helps me find something or someone who I want to know about
its past history.
 Our album. It helps us remember the history of our family.
 Our history teacher. I can ask them if I want to know about something about in
the past of our country.
8. What are secondary sources?
Secondary Sources are one step removed from primary sources, though they often
quote or otherwise use primary sources. They can cover the same topic, but add a layer
of interpretation and analysis.
9. Give 5 examples of secondary sources
 Biography
 Dissertation
 Review of play
 genre of poetry
 Essay on a treaty