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How to analyze a primary source

Remembrance Day resources
Activity

Activity

Worksheet to help students analyze primary source documents using who, what, when, where, why and how questions.

View and download the worksheet: How to analyze a primary source (PDF)

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Letters, 13 September 1979 and 6 January 1980

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