Process

You will read a diary or memoir written during WWI (a primary source document) from the following source:

Memoirs and Diaries

The Somme

You must cite your source using NoodleTools as your guide, and as you read the entry, you must evaluate the primary source. (Use this criteria to take notes using your NoodleTools account.)


Use your "I wonder" questions to learn more about events that happened during your WWI lifetime from some of the following sources:

Subscription Services

Historical Newspapers

SIRS Decades: 20th CenturyAmerican Sources

e-Library 

Encyclopaedia Britannica 

Gale General Reference Center Gold 

Free Web Sites

PBS: The Great War

World War I, Trenches on the Web 

First World War 

The World War I Document Archive 

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History 

Library of Congress: World War I Resources

Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures

 

Print Resources & Internet Resources Available From Destiny 

The Grolier Library of World War I, REF 940.3 GRO

Short well written articles.

 

You will collaborate with your classmates to create a newspaper/newsletter. You must write at least one article in the voice of your WWI person to include in the newspaper.

Use your imagination and voice in creating your project.

You must include a "Works Cited" page with your project and your notes.