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This document contains an activity assessing a student's understanding of primary and secondary sources in historical research. The activity includes two true/false questionnaires testing definitions of primary and secondary sources. It also includes two essay questions asking the student to list categories of historical sources and criteria used to validate sources. The document provides rubrics to score essays on knowledge, content, writing quality, and grammar. It also includes direction to determine if sample sources are primary or secondary and to enumerate examples of each.

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Assignment 2

This document contains an activity assessing a student's understanding of primary and secondary sources in historical research. The activity includes two true/false questionnaires testing definitions of primary and secondary sources. It also includes two essay questions asking the student to list categories of historical sources and criteria used to validate sources. The document provides rubrics to score essays on knowledge, content, writing quality, and grammar. It also includes direction to determine if sample sources are primary or secondary and to enumerate examples of each.

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Course and Section:

Activity 1

True or False. Write T if the statement is correct and F if it is false.

____1. It is from our historical sources that our history is studied and written.
____2. Primary sources are materials produced by people or groups directly involved in the
event or topic being studied.
____3. Photographs, old sketches and drawings are examples of secondary sources.
____4. Secondary source is a testimony of anyone who is not an eyewitness.
____5. Examples of primary sources are books, articles and scholarly journals.
____6. Only primary sources may be used in writing history.
____7. Internal criticism is done by looking at a source’s quality of paper and type of ink, among
others.
____8. There are three types of sources: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
____9. Only secondary sources may be used in writing history.
____10. The historian’s most important research tools are historical sources.

Activity 2
Essay. Answer the following:

1.List the categories of sources that historical researchers use and give examples for each.
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2.What criteria do historical researchers use to validate their sources of data?


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Scoring Rubrics for Essay

Category Exemplary Superior Satisfactor Unsatisfactor


y y
Knowledge/ Demonstrates Demonstrate Demonstrate Demonstrates
Comprehensio thorough s s limited
n 25% understanding considerable understandin understanding
of topic. understandin g of topic
g of the topic
of the topic.
Content Response Response Response Response is
25% indicates depth indicates lacks focus unclear,
& complexity of simplistic or or illogical or
thought in answering repetitive demonstrates incoherent.
the essay. thoughts in confused or
answering conflicting
the essay thinking.
question.
Quality of Response was Response Response Response had
Writing written in an was written had a little no style or
25% extraordinary style in an style or voice voice.
& voice. interesting
style.
Gives some
Very information & Somewhat new Gives no new
well organized. informative information information &
& organized. but poorly very poorly
organized. organized.
Grammar, Almost no spelling, Few spelling A number of So many
Punctuation & punctuation or & spelling, spelling,
Spelling grammatical errors. punctuation punctuation punctuation &
25% errors, minor or grammatical
grammatical grammatical errors that it
errors. errors. interferes with
the meaning.
Sub Totals
100%

Over-all-
Score 100%
Evaluation:
Test l. Direction. Determine if the source would be a Primary Source (P) or a Secondary Source
(S).
1. Statistical tables, graphs and charts.
2. A YouTube video describing how the rice terraces were built.
3. A biography of Ferdinand Marcos written by a foreigner.
4. A book describing Ferdinand Magellan sailing to the Philippines.
5. A contemporary artist's painting of what life was probably like in the 19 th century.
6. A history book describing the life of Gregorio del Pilar in the Battle of Tirad Pass.
7. Nestor Mata describing his experience about the plane crash of 1957 that took the life of
former Pres. Magsaysay.
8. A legal document signed by two contracting parties.
9. A text book describing the EDSA Revolution 1.
10. A student reading an official report about the cause of Pinatubo’s crash in 1957.

Test ll. Enumeration:

Enumerate the following:


11-15 Enumerate examples of primary sources used in studying history.
16-20 Enumerate examples of secondary sources that had interpreted primary sources.

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