Nature How is the source presented? Diary. Speech. Newspaper. Letter. Painting. Statistics in a graph.

Origin Who or what produced the source? Private. General. Politician. Organisation. Member of the Public.

Purpose What were the reasons why the source was produced? To change public opinion. To keep moral up. For information. To create a good/bad impression. To describe something. To explain something. To assess something.

Remember: The NOP is useful in all the questions to help you figure out any inferences, whether different sources agree and whether a source is useful.

Also remember to look at the date. is it primary or secondary?

A. What can you LEARN from the source? What information does it give you? Do you need to explain any key terms, words, events or people? Have you read between the lines? Have you explained how the source gives information?

SOURCE WORK How to answer the questions.

Introduce Explain what the question is asking you. Statement Make a point from the source to answer the question. Support Use quotes from the source to back this up. Own Knowledge Use this to back up the source. Inference Say what the source is suggesting read between the lines. Summary Explain how all of the above answers the question.

B. Does one source SUPPORT another? Have you looked at the sources in the correct order? Have you looked at similarities AND differences? Have you looked at the TONE of the source (happy/sad etc)? Have you mentioned the NOP?

Using

your Own Knowledge. When being asked to do this, remember to look at the sources first. This will give you a clue as two what extra information you need. Your own knowledge should give background information about the people, dates and events referred to in the source. It will also help you to infer from the source reminding you of things that the source may be suggesting.

Quoting the source. Do not quote more than two sentences from a source and remember the speech marks.

C. How USEFUL is the source for..? Have you looked at both how the source is useful and how it is not useful? Have you remembered that a source that IS NOT useful for information IS useful for explaining how a person may have wanted an event to be seen? Have you explained that some sources are more useful than others and how? Have you used the reliability of the source to explain its use? Have you mentioned the NOP?

D. Using all the sources, do you agree/disagree with the statement? This question is asking you to INTERPRET the sources point of view. Have you looked at the sources and considered their interpretation of the event/person they are about? Have you only used a source if they are relevant or connected to the statement? Have you used your own knowledge to explain the context of the statement and the source used?

Remember: 1) Read through all the sources carefully and take time to highlight/underline the key information needed do this before looking at the questions. 2) Look at what the question is actually asking you ATBQ. 3) Look at the number of marks for each question and spend time answering them accordingly.

You CAN do it.