How to use SOAP to analyze primary sources.

1. How to use SOAP

2. Secondary VS. Primary Sources Secondary Source- Any source that presents general information or has been produced by people who were not witnesses Ex: Your history book

3. Secondary VS. Primary Sources Primary Source- Any document, picture, recording, or other artifact that was produced or used by the people who were actually involved in an event Ex: a letter from a soldier, a diary, an engraving made by Africans on the Middle Passage, political cartoons, your grandpa's Purple Heart

4. Why Primary Sources? Studying history by using primary sources allows you to see the evidence for yourself. You get to draw your own conclusions instead of being told what to think or believe.

5. SOAP

6. Primary or secondary source?

7. Who created it?

8. 1. “A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.” ~Benjamin Franklin 2. Benjamin Franklin had many quotes. One of them reminded others of the importance of thinking before speaking. Which one is a primary source?

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11. What is the purpose?