Trench Warfare

Topic: Canadian History, World War I

Historical Thinking Skills: Sourcing

Time Period: World War I

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.

“Trench Warfare” asks students to compare two sources and suggest which might be more useful in answering a particular historical inquiry.