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When doing research it is important to make sure you have reliable information and sources. When doing my family tree project, in ELA, I used primary and secondary resources to find information. Realiable websites I went to were .gov and .edu. I also used primary sources such as birth and death certificates. These are realiable sources because they are issued by the state. Primary sources can be trusted to be realiable information where as secondary sources are not as realiable. Examples of secondary resources are obituaries, news articles, biographies, and magazines. Some examples of primary resources are letters, diaries, important documents, clothes, and even furniture ! Things I used were interfeared with secondary and primary resources.

During the family tree project it was required for students to reasearch there genealogy in order to create a family tree. This was relevent to what we were doing in class at the time because we were reading a historical fiction novel called "The House of Dies Drear". In this novel we are introduced to a family that moves into an old slave house while living there they talk about ansectory and family ties. This was also the time that we were studying civil war history, slavery, and african american history in our social studies class. We were able to relate nformation from our history textbooks to what we were reading in our liturature novel.