Activity overview
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Students will engage in the “Hook, Line, and Linker” activity in the Big Six (pp. 53-56), to make observations about the sources they are reading.
For each source they read, students will first list the information about the Dieppe Raid that they can find in the source. Next, they will make inferences about the author’s intent – what does he or she want the reader to think or feel about the Dieppe Raid? Next, students will make a list of questions that remain – what else do we need to know in order to answer the question: How has the evidence led historians to their conclusions about the Dieppe Raid? |
Primary HTC concept(s)
explored in this activity Evidence guidepost 1 History is interpretation based on inferences made from primary sources. Primary sources can be accounts, but they can also be traces, relics, or records. Evidence guidepost 2 Asking good questions about a source can turn it into evidence. |
In this activity, students should be able to demonstrate an emerging ability to make inferences based on their readings, as well as an emerging ability to pose good questions to help guide further inquiry. Please see The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts (2012) by Peter Seixas and Tom Morton, as well as the Historical Thinking Project website for further ideas for student assessment or to adapt these activities.
Questions posed to students in this activity
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Research question: What do these sources say about the Dieppe Raid?
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Inquiry question(s): What does the author want the reader to think about the Dieppe Raid?
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Considerations for teachers to introduce in student inquiry
Additional guiding question for students: Why might the authors be critical of Mountbatten and senior Canadian commanders?
Debates among historians: Critics of Operation Jubilee focus on the plan to attack a well defended port at nestled between high cliffs without sufficient air and naval bombardment. The plan was influenced by British government reluctance to risk undue harm to innocent French lives and property.
Debates among historians: Critics of Operation Jubilee focus on the plan to attack a well defended port at nestled between high cliffs without sufficient air and naval bombardment. The plan was influenced by British government reluctance to risk undue harm to innocent French lives and property.