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Explore -- Trench Warfare (CHOOSE 2 TO COMPLETE)

Source	Directions
History Channel Video: Life in a Trench	Go to the reflection padlet and respond to the following questions: What are three interesting or poignant details that you learned about daily life in the trenches?
Going Over The Top: (Role Play/ Choose Your Own Adventure)
Article: A History of Trench Warfare in WWI
Primary Source: Letter home from Wayne to his folks (very interesting to read!)

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Explore -- New Technology (CHOOSE TWO TO COMPLETE)

Source	Task
Trench Warfare (Game) → Choose your weapons wisely as you and your men will need to survive	Complete the sort activity in Google Drawings. Attach your copy to the classroom assignment.
The New Technology of WWI → Watch and learn about the new technology created during WWI
New Technologies of WWI (Article) WWI in Photos: Technology

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Explain → The Battles of WWI

Read page 5 of the Discovery Education techbook. (Login to NCEdCloud before clicking this link)
As you read, complete this timeline to sequence and describe major battles of WWI.
There are six battles from the text that should be described in your timeline

Battle of Tannenberg
1st Battle of the Marne
Gallipoli Campaign
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Cambrai
2nd Battle of the Marne

Attach your timeline to the Google Classroom Assignment

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STOP!!!

Come and see me!

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Explain → On the Front Lines (Choose 2)

Source (Read at least two sources and answer questions to the right)	Questions (Please type and highlight your answers below)
Weapons “the biggest grueling” Letter by Jonathan George Symons, 19 October 1915, Belgium 13 County of London Regiment (King’s Royal Rifles Corps)	How does their experience of the First World War vary amongst these letter writers? What can be found out about tactics/weapons/equipment used in combat? Describe conditions for those in the trenches on Western Front. Which letters have you found the most interesting/funny/moving to read?
Injury: “I look a pretty picture” Albert Edwin Rippington, undated, England. 5th London Rifle Brigade
Trenches: “They were mostly near boys” Richard Gilson, 12 May 1915, France (Audio transcript available)
Trenches “dodging damned great near bombs” William Albert Hastings, 11 July 1915, France (audio transcript available)
Injury: “Arrived here with only one boot” Charles Douglas Mayo, 22 October 1915, Courtrai, Belgium

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Apply → Pick one and show what you know!

Compose a letter home to a friend, significant other, or family member. In your letter, include firsthand experiences of what it would have been like to fight in WWI. Attach the finished letter to the assignment in Google Classroom.	Compose a 16 bar rap from the viewpoint of a WWI soldier. The rap should use historical evidence and perspective. Attach a copy of your rap into the Google Classroom assignment. Video Tutorial	Complete this concept map of WWI, making sure to fill in all the bubbles with details learned from the HyperDoc. Attach your copy to the Google Classroom assignment.
Compose a haiku poem that shows how battles were fought or the life of a soldier. Attach the finished poem to the Google Classroom assignment. Video Tutorial	Compose a diary entry from the perspective of a WWI soldier. In the entry, include firsthand accounts of battle and other historical perspectives. Attach a copy to the Google Classroom assignment.	Create a comic story book story that narrates the day in the life of a WWI soldier. Use this template to start off! The comic should be historically accurate with information learned from the podcast.

You may choose to work on this with one other person. The non owner of the document will need to tell me who they worked with in a private comment on their Google Classroom assignment.

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