Links:
- Faces of War - EBSCO
- Marital Status and the Rhetoric of the Women's Movement in World War I Germany.
- Another welcome letter: Soldiers' letters from the great war.
- ART FROM THE FRONT, DEATH IMAGINED AND THE NEGLECTED MAJORITY
- FRANCE AND THE OUTBREAK OF THE WORLD WAR.
- MILITARY LESSONS OF THE GREAT WAR
- French war plans, 1914: The Balance of Power Paradox
- WWI Document Archive
- William Henry Bonser Lamin
- WWI Primary Footage
- World War One #1
- Victorian Cross Heroes Episode 2 - The Great War
- 1914 Europe Map
- Verdun Maps
- Marne Map
- von Schlieffen Map
World War I Teaching Exercise
Each group will plan a 15 minute lesson focusing on an aspect of the Great War. Your lesson plan must be centered on the use of primary source material as the main tool or focal point of the plan.
You must submit a lesson plan based on the following:
Purpose/Objective: What is the point of your lesson? Identify the core knowledge you want to the class to understand. What do you want students to be able to demonstrate after the lesson? (You will be asked to evaluate student understanding.)
Materials:
You must include a detailed WC of all materials used.
Plan:
Provide a detailed outline of your 25 min lesson.
How will you begin/initiate the lesson?
Each aspect should be covered and rehearsed. You MUST CENTER YOUR PLAN AROUND THE ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY MATERIAL.
o Think:
How can you portray your topic through this medium?
How does the material fit into the larger historical picture?
Can you draw modern parallels or make the material relevant today?
Closure How will you evaluate student knowledge?
You may use any medium you want to present information, but remember that you want the information presented in a manner that is accessible to the whole class.
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WWI Stories
The exercise is designed to help you explore the manner in which individuals were shaped by the Great War. Who were the men and women listed below? What do their stories tell us of the history of the Great War? How do their stories illustrate the concept of Total War? How do their stories illustrate the changing face of war?
American housewife Homefront 1917
Bill Bishop RCAF
Srg. Henry Johnson 369th Inf. Regiment Harlem Hellfighters
Ralph Waldo Tyler
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
William Dalton Lycett
Orderly at Craiglockhart
Kurt Zehmisch
Maj. Charles W. Whittlesey
Haakon A. Rossum Co. G, 308th Inf. Lost Battalion
Able Seaman US Merchant Marines 1917
French Mutineer 1917
Field nurse Voluntary Aid Detachment French 1918
Allied soldier during the gas attack at Ypres 1915
U-boat crewman 1917
German pilot 1918
Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck
Russian soldier, Battle of Massurian Lakes
Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen
survivor of the Lusitania
Indian soldier, 57th Wilde's Rifles, Indian Army, Western Front
Russian Bolshevic, 1916
http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/lusitania.html
http://www.atech.org/faculty/vyoung/WWI/
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/commhome.html
This section of World War I Document Archive offers commentaries and articles on special topics of the Great War.
http://www.buffalosoldiers.com/AAChronology3.htm
http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/history20/
http://www.anzacs.net/BoySoldiers.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/
1. I will select 8 figures, of which you will choose only 1 to write on.
2. Write a 1 page journal entry reflecting on either a day in your life, a key period of time, decision you made or action you took. You MUST incorporate into your account the following question: What is your greatest fear? How did this fear impact your actions reported? Be as descriptive as possible. Your reflection must be based on the historical character assigned and though fictional, take into account his/her position, background, etc.