2010-11 WWI: Interactive Poems

Read the World War I poems:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/flanders_field.shtml







http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/zeppelins.shtml




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1. Which poem was your favorite?


2. What did you like about it?

2010-11 WWI: Drafted!

This is my great-great grandpa's draft card from World War I. He was drafted when he was 26 years old and served from 1917-1918. He was a miller (a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a cereal crop to make flour) and had no military experience.
**Think about what it means to be "drafted" into a war.

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How would you feel if you got a draft card?  Cite specific reasons why you feel this way.

Walter Kriner, my great, great grandpa.
Nice boots, huh?



My great grandpa's dad's farm in Dubois, Pennsylvania.
My great grandpa is the young man on the left leaning on the car.

My great grandpa's family.
Do you see the little boy on the left (behind the boy in the sailor suit)?
That is my grandpa, Luke Kriner.

20010-11 WWI: Trench Warfare Game

Go to this link and play the Trench Warfare game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/trenchwarfare.shtml

2010-11 WWI Picture Book

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/picture_gallery.htm

2010-11 WWI Posters

Propaganda posters were used for:
-justifying a country's involvement in the conflict
-wartime rationing
-seeking funds and materials for war
-encouraging sales of war bonds (funds for war)
-recruitment of men

Link to more posters: http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/britpost/posters.htm