LE CHANSON DE LA GRENOUILLÈRE

Topic: Canadian History, Metis History

Historical Thinking Skills: Sourcing

Time Period: 1816

Attending to the metadata of a source is a critical aspect of sourcing a document in order to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a source in serving as evidence for a particular historical inquiry.

“Le Chanson de Grenouillère” asks students to identify aspects of a source that make it useful and those that make it less useful.