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| 00:0-1 | Hello , readers . I just got back from the | |
| 00:01 | library with these books . Oh , big surprise , | |
| 00:04 | you say . I went to the library . I | |
| 00:06 | found two books . No , I get it . | |
| 00:07 | But these books will help us talk about the difference | |
| 00:09 | between a 1st and 2nd hand account . You see | |
| 00:13 | , this is a travel diary written by a young | |
| 00:15 | man on the Oregon Trail , like 150 years ago | |
| 00:18 | . Whereas this is a book about the Oregon Trail | |
| 00:21 | written last year , a firsthand account is created by | |
| 00:25 | the person who experienced an event . First . Hand | |
| 00:29 | accounts are also called primary sources . Primary is another | |
| 00:31 | way to say first or original , it uses pronounced | |
| 00:35 | like I or me . It's told from one person's | |
| 00:38 | perspective . A secondhand account is more distant from the | |
| 00:42 | event , like a book or a newspaper article . | |
| 00:44 | The author wasn't there , but they use first hand | |
| 00:47 | accounts like interviews , diaries , photos or video recordings | |
| 00:51 | to stitch the story together . The story uses pronounced | |
| 00:54 | like they she or he not I or we let | |
| 00:58 | me show you more specifically by comparing thes two passages | |
| 01:02 | . Okay , so this one our first hand account | |
| 01:05 | comes from the Diary of Horace Griggs , our young | |
| 01:08 | migrant on the Oregon Trail , July 18th , 18 | |
| 01:12 | 71 . We're in the Wyoming territory now , and | |
| 01:15 | it's been a few days since we had good water | |
| 01:18 | . I'm starting to worry . It's been a least | |
| 01:20 | a week since any of us saw a tree , | |
| 01:22 | but the buffalo chips remained plentiful . At least the | |
| 01:25 | darn things burn hot . And here's an excerpt from | |
| 01:29 | a secondary source . Our book about the Oregon Trail | |
| 01:32 | that came out last year . The Oregon trail didn't | |
| 01:35 | have many trees . The pioneers used buffalo chips , | |
| 01:38 | dried buffalo dung as fuel for their fires . In | |
| 01:41 | fact , some Children played games with buffalo chips . | |
| 01:44 | They tossed them around like Frisbees . So we've got | |
| 01:47 | here two passages , both about buffalo droppings . Good | |
| 01:50 | job me . Let me be clear . It's not | |
| 01:51 | gross . They're mostly made of dried grass . Honestly | |
| 01:55 | , what are the big differences between these two passages | |
| 01:59 | ? Look at how Horace uses first person pronouns like | |
| 02:02 | I or we or us . He's telling the story | |
| 02:06 | from his perspective and the perspective of other people traveling | |
| 02:09 | with him . It's like he's telling us a story | |
| 02:11 | , and it's his story to tell . He was | |
| 02:12 | right . They're starting fires with buffalo chips . We | |
| 02:15 | can see how he felt about not having access toe | |
| 02:18 | water . He was worried . Firsthand accounts connect us | |
| 02:21 | more closely with the emotions of the writer , and | |
| 02:25 | because he was there , he could accurately describe his | |
| 02:28 | experiences . However , this guy can only describe his | |
| 02:30 | own experience . He doesn't know what it was like | |
| 02:33 | in other wagon trains . He doesn't know what it | |
| 02:35 | was like to be a native community encountering these settlers | |
| 02:38 | . He's running from one perspective , and it's his | |
| 02:40 | perspective . Now look at the second passage . It | |
| 02:43 | uses the pronounced there and they to refer to the | |
| 02:46 | pioneers and their kids . What does that tell us | |
| 02:49 | ? The writer is not part of the group , | |
| 02:51 | wasn't there . Doesn't consider themselves part of the US | |
| 02:54 | The way that Horace considers himself part of an US | |
| 02:57 | the author is mawr distant . It's not the authors | |
| 03:00 | individual story . Instead , they're trying to tell the | |
| 03:03 | stories of other people through research . This is what | |
| 03:06 | makes it a secondary source , a secondhand account . | |
| 03:09 | Because second hand accounts are more distant from the events | |
| 03:12 | they describe , their usually less emotional . The author | |
| 03:16 | of this second passage , for example , isn't worried | |
| 03:18 | about anything that's happening to the pioneers . They're not | |
| 03:20 | even referring to a specific set of pioneers . They're | |
| 03:23 | talking about what these migrants did in general . They're | |
| 03:25 | giving you background knowledge , general knowledge . That kind | |
| 03:29 | of distance lets the author of a secondhand account cover | |
| 03:32 | more ground . They don't have to stick to the | |
| 03:34 | narrative of one family or one person , or even | |
| 03:37 | one moment in time . 1st and 2nd hand accounts | |
| 03:41 | are both important . When I was a kid , | |
| 03:43 | they used to advertise sugary cereals as part of a | |
| 03:46 | balanced breakfast , little bowl of sugary cereal , a | |
| 03:49 | glass of milk , a bull , the fruit , | |
| 03:50 | maybe a sausage , some toast . Well , think | |
| 03:52 | of primary and secondary sources as part of a balanced | |
| 03:57 | information diet . A little a column , a little | |
| 04:00 | column B . You just got to take your knowledge | |
| 04:04 | spoon and dig in deep into your perspectives bowl . | |
| 04:08 | That's the thing that I made up just now . | |
| 04:11 | Diversity of perspectives does a body good . You can | |
| 04:15 | learn anything . David out |
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1. RI.4.6 : Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided..
