THE HAPPY MAN TODAY

Topic: Canadian History,

Historical Thinking Skills: Sourcing

Time Period: 1914-1918

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.

“The Happy Man Today”asks students to evaluate the strengths and limitations of a source based on attending to its metadata and a close analysis of the source itself.