This product provides all that you need to teach 4.RI.6, 5.RI.6- comparing and contrasting firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event using California’s early explorers as content. I've also included worksheets that could be used with ANY firsthand and secondhand account documents in case you want to use a topic other than early explorers. I created this product after I showed my students a quick excerpt from a diary of an early California explorer after we had finished reading about hi