Activity Sheet

in
ENGLISH 6
QUARTER 2
Week 5-Day 4

Study Strategy Research

EN6SS-IIe-3
Organize information from primary sources in preparation for
writing, reporting, and similar academic tasks in collaboration with
others
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Let’s Learn This

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Today, you will learn about how to organize information from primary sources in
preparation for your writing, reporting, and similar academic tasks.

Be ready for group activities.

Let’s Study This

Primary sources are original records of the political, economic, artistic,

scientific, social, and intellectual thoughts and achievements of specific historical
periods. Produced by the people who participated in and witnessed the past, primary
sources offer a variety of points of view and perspectives of events, issues, people, and
places. These records can be found anywhere—in a home, a government archive,
etc.—the important thing to remember is they were used or created by someone with
firsthand experience of an event.

Examples of Primary Sources:

Primary sources are not just documents and written records. There are many
different kinds of primary sources, including: first-person accounts, documents, physical
artifacts, scientific data that has been collected but not interpreted, and face-to-face
mentors with specific knowledge or expertise. Primary sources also take a variety of
formats—examples of these are listed below.
 Audio—oral histories or memoirs, interviews, music
 Images—photographs, videos, film, fine art
 Objects—clothing (fashion or uniforms), tools, pottery, gravestones, inventions,
weapons, memorabilia
 Statistics—census data, population statistics, weather records
 Text—letters, diaries, original documents, legal agreements, treaties, maps,
laws, advertisements, recipes, genealogical information, sermons/lectures

How do Primary and Secondary Sources differ?

While primary sources are the original records created by firsthand witnesses of
an event, secondary sources are documents, texts, images, and objects about an event
created by someone who typically referenced the primary sources for their information.
Textbooks are excellent examples of secondary sources.

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Why is it important for students to use Primary Sources?

1. Direct engagement with artifacts and records of the past encourages deeper
content exploration, active analysis, and thoughtful response.
2. Analysis of primary sources helps students develop critical thinking skills by
examining meaning, context, bias, purpose, point of view, etc.
3. Primary source analysis fosters learner-led inquiry as students construct
knowledge by interacting with a variety of sources that represent different
accounts of the past.
4. Students realize that history exists through interpretation that reflects the view
points and biases of those doing the interpreting.

Reference:
Primary and Secondary Sources. Accessed July 13, 2017.
https://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/~/media/GWBL/Files/Education%20pdfs/ElementaryLP_Primar
ySecondarySources_Web.ashx

Let’s Try This

Task 1. What You See is What You Get!

With your group mates, analyze the editorial cartoon sample distributed by your teacher.
Fill the blanks below with your findings. Be ready to discuss your group’s findings.

1. Describe the action taking place in the cartoon.

______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
2. Explain the cartoonist’s message in the drawing and caption.
______________________________________________________
3. Is this cartoon easy to figure out? Why or why not?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
4. Does this cartoon require you to have a lot of background information on this issue,
event, or person?
__Yes
__No
Explain ________________________________________________
5. Who is the cartoonist? ________________________________
6. List any persons portrayed in the drawing:
____________________
____________________
____________________

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7. Did the cartoonist exaggerate any physical features of a person? If yes, describe
how it was done.
________________________________________________________
8. Were any symbols used?
__Yes
__No
If yes, what do they represent?
________________________________________________________
9. Which person or group(s) may be most likely to agree with its message?
________________________________________________________
10. Which person or group(s) may disagree with the cartoon’s message?
________________________________________________________

Let’s Do This

Task 2. I Got Mine!

A. Draw and describe in detail another cartoon that would be different from this one but
yet would contain the same message.

B. Draw and describe in detail a cartoon you could create that would convey an
opposite message.

Let’s Do More

Task 3. What Do You See in Me?

Study the photograph carefully. Fill in the boxes with appropriate information.

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People

Objects

Activities

1. What is the subject of the photograph?

___________________________________________________________
2. List three conclusions about the subject that you can make from studying the
photograph.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________ .
4. What questions does this photograph raise? ___________________________
__________________________________________________________________
6. Write your own caption for the photograph.
__________________________________________________________________
7. How would you crop this photo to further bring out a main
theme?____________________________________________________________

Let’s Test Ourselves

Task 4. What’s in a Commercial!

Study this advertisement then answer the questions below.

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1. What is your initial reaction upon seeing this for the first time? Is it appealing?
Informative? What emotions (if any) does it bring forth in you?
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
2. List any objects depicted.
_______________________________________________________________
3. List any persons portrayed.
_______________________________________________________________
4. Describe any symbols or logos found.
_______________________________________________________________
5. Explain the message(s).
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
6. Who is the advertisement’s target audience?
_________________________________________________________________
7. Does the layout and artwork of this advertisement appeal to you? __ yes __no
Why? ____________________________________________________________
8. What action from the audience does the creator of the advertisement hope for?
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

Let’s Enrich Ourselves

Task 5. What’s in the Map?

Analyze the map. Fill the blanks below and be ready to report your findings in class.

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1. What map is this?_________________________________________

2. What kind of map is shown in the picture?______________________
3. What technique did the creator of this map use to distinguish one place from the
other?
4. What are the strong points of this map?____________weak points?_____________
5. What suggestions can you give to improve this map?
______________________________________________________________________

Let’s Remember This

A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object,

person, or work of art. Primary sources provide the original materials on which other
research is based and enable students and other researchers to get as close as
possible to what actually happened during a particular event or time period.

Published materials can be viewed as primary resources if they come from the
time period that is being discussed, and were written or produced by someone with
firsthand experience of the event.

Often primary sources reflect the individual viewpoint of a participant or

observer. Primary sources can be written or non-written (sound, pictures, artifacts,
etc.). In scientific research, primary sources present original thinking, report on
discoveries, or share new information.

Reference:
“Primary Sources.”Accessed June 29, 2017.https://www.sccollege.edu/Libray/Pages/primarysources.aspx

Prepared by:

MELISSA D. VIDAD

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ANSWER KEY
(For Teachers’ Use Only)

Task 1. What You See is What You Get!

Answers depend on the available picture distributed by the teacher.
Use rubrics for reporting.

Assessment Rubric for a Collaborative Group Report

Reference: http://glory.gc.maricopa.edu/~mdesoto/webquest/webquest_evaluation.htm

Point Value Outstanding Good Developing Beginning

5 4-3 2 1
Participation Participates Participates in Sometimes Participates
actively. group. Shows participates minimally.
Helps direct concern for in group. Shows a little
the group in goals. Shows concern for
setting goals. Participates in concern for goals.
Helps direct goal setting. some goals. Watches but
group in Participates in Participates doesn't
meeting meeting goals. marginally in participate in goal
goals. Completes goal setting. setting.
Thoroughly assigned tasks. Participates Completes
completes Demonstrates in meeting assigned tasks
assigned effort to help goals. late or turns in
tasks. the group work Completes work incomplete.
Actively together. some
participates in assigned
helping the tasks.
group work
together
better.
Communication Shares many Freely shares Shares ideas Does not share
ideas related ideas. when ideas.
to the goals. Listens to encouraged. Watches but
Encourages others. Allows does not
all group Considers other sharing by all contribute to
members to people's group discussions.
share their feelings and members. Does not show
ideas. ideas. Listens to consideration for
Listens others. others.
attentively to Considers
others. other
Empathetic to people's
other people's feelings and
feelings and ideas.
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Task 2. I Got Mine

Rubrics for editorial cartooning.
Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
Factual More than Five Five facts Fewer than No facts are
five separate are
information separate facts are included in five facts included in
facts are the are
included in included in included in the cartoon.
cartoon.
the the the
cartoon. cartoon. cartoon.
Accuracy All facts Facts are Facts are The The cartoon
are accurate accurate cartoon contains
accurate. with with no has at more
least one
no more more than major error than two
than one two minor or three major errors
minor errors. minor or more than
error. errors.
three minor
errors.
Organization All Information Information Information Information
information is well is well is poorly is
is well organized organized disorganized
organized
and with no with no organized and difficult
arranged more more with
logically. than one than two more than to read.
minor errors.
three
error.
errors.
Message The The The The No message
message message message message is given to
to the to the to the is unclear the viewer.
viewers is viewer is viewer is or weak. It
clear and clear. It is clear. It is is difficult
strong. It is easy for not a for the
easy for the viewer strong viewer to
the viewer to message
to
understand understand understand
the the the
message. message. point.
The The
Presentation The The The
illustration illustration

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is drawn illustration is drawn illustration illustration is

neatly with is drawn neatly. A is drawn missing.
excellent neatly with caption poorly. The title or
details. It is good and title There are caption is
free from details. identify the few details. missing.
smudges. The subject of The
The caption the picture. caption
caption and the The and the
and the title caption title do not
title are summarize and the identify or
written the picture. title are explain the
neatly and The printed picture.
fully caption clearly. The
explain the and title caption
picture. are neatly and title
written. are not
written
neatly.
.
Task 3. What Do You See in Me!
Answers may vary.

Task 4.What’s in a Commercial

Answers may vary.

Task 5. What’s in the Map?

Some answers may vary.
1. Map of the National Capital Region (NCR)
2. Physical map

Prepared by:

MELISSA D. VIDAD

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