ANALYZING PRIMARY & SECONDARY SOURCES | Jennifer Casey last updated April 8, 2014
Experiencing the Titanic Disaster
Analyzing Primary & Secondary Sources
Directions: For this assignment read the following excerpts from primary and secondary sources. Complete a table identifying the author, audience, format, and purpose of each excerpt. Remember that primary sources are first-hand, original accounts, records, or evidence about a person, place, object, or an event. Secondary sources are accounts, records, or evidence derived from an original or primary source. In other words, you could ask yourself the question, Was this person there? If the person was there, it is a primary source, if they were not there, it is a secondary source. You will need to use your book, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster to figure out the answers. Once you complete the table, copy and paste the table into the Analysis page you created on your Titanic project website. This is the second of two tables that you will include on your websites Analysis page.
Analyzing Primary & Secondary Sources Excerpt Source Author Audience Purpose EXAMPLE: The final docking in New York at Pier No. 54 North River, when all our friends and relations learned the truth about the extent of the loss, was the last nerve-shattering blow for many peopleit marked the end of all hope. (Hopkinson, p. 195 quoting Jack Thayer) Primary Jack Thayer People not on board the Titanic Informing someone about the moment when the reality of what had happened actually began to sink in
I didnt even feel the shock Bride said. There was no jolt whatever. (Hopkinson, p. 76 quoting Harold Bride)
ANALYZING PRIMARY & SECONDARY SOURCES | Jennifer Casey last updated April 8, 2014 Survivor Lawrence Beesley was very glad to see land again. It seemed to him that eight weeks rather than eight days had passed since hed left England. He could barely remember those first peaceful, uneventful hours of the voyage.(Hopkinson, p. 197)
Mother then released me, and now beginning to be fearful about my father, I lifted myself to look past her shoulder and saw the tail end of our ship aimed straight up toward the stars in the sky, said Frankie. (Hopkinson, p. 150 quoting Frankie Goldsmith)
When Colonel Archibald Gracie turned around to look for the ship, he realized that the Titanic was nowhere to be found. The strange sound he had heard must have been the water closing over the stern in those last seconds. (Hopkinson, p. 151)
Works Cited Hopkinson, D., 2012. Titanic: Voices from the Disaster. Scholastic Press.