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OPVL Examining Documents the IB Way Is this a primary or secondary source? Task of the historian • What happened? • Why did it happen? • Why is it important How 11 IB will examine documents: • • • • O-Origin P-Purpose V-Value L-Limitations 0: Origin • Examples include: the person responsible for creating it, the date and the place it came from, and the person or audience it was intended for. The more details you can give, the better! • Some source details MAY be given to you. P: Purpose • Describe the aims (goals), give the reason for why it was produced. • What was the person who said, wrote or produced it trying to do? • Who was the intended audience? V: Value • In historical context • Go back to O and P: it could be valuable because it is about an event that the author saw. • You could know the position held by the author, and can then judge if his/her purpose was to convince or deceive. • Note that a source that is not reliable, that is, does not mean what it says, can be of value. Providing you recognize that it is propaganda, clouding the facts, covering up the mistakes made, or intended to support personal gain. V: Value Continued • What is significant about this document? – Past and present • What can be learned from this document? L: Limitations • Use knowledge of the source’s origin and context • Students often find a source to be of little value because the writer was not an eyewitness. • BIASED!!!! (not good enough!) • Students often describe content, rather than evaluating the context • In desperation students suggest limitations based on a translation, secondary-not a primary source and that it is biased! (also not good enough!) L: Limitations Continued • Is there any other information that would help clarify or fill in the holes? • What prevents this document from being 100% trustworthy? • What needs to be verified? • O,P,V,L should become second nature to you. This is the method of analysis that will be done in class this year!! • O,P,V,L should ALWAYS be written in paragraph form. • Let’s practice--on a scratch piece of paper, O,P,V,L the following source. Do this individually and be prepared to share out. • Feel free to refer back to your notes during your analysis. • On a clean piece of paper that you will be turning in on your way out of class, please O,P,V,L the following document. • Please do this one by yourself, this is for me to be able to see how well you are doing with O,P,V,L.