GROUP ASSIGNMENT: WORLD WAR I
Directions: Explore the assigned resources on your topic and try to imagine life before and after the key moments in history. List at least five (5) adjectives to describe how life must have been within the context of your topic and answer the following questions. Consider your topic with the context of how an individual would respond to these social, cultural, technological, and historical changes. Be prepared to share your information with the class.
Directions: Explore the assigned resources on your topic and try to imagine life before and after the key moments in history. List at least five (5) adjectives to describe how life must have been within the context of your topic and answer the following questions. Consider your topic with the context of how an individual would respond to these social, cultural, technological, and historical changes. Be prepared to share your information with the class.
- View several of the trench warfare videos from www.teachertube.com/video/trench-warfare-115627
- French soldiers in Alsace using trench periscope
- British troops, August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme
- Belgian troops entrenched along a railway line
- Panning shot over a wrecked trench with entrances to intact dugouts, 1916
- Trench junction at Martinpuich with infantry, some carrying boxes of grenades, moving up, presumably to the front line, 1916
- High-angle shot of trench, 1916
- View the following early video clips and/or photos of landscapes devastated during WWI.
- “Camera pans slowly across war-devastated landscape. Heavily shell-cratered ground and remnants of wood. Filmed at Beaumont Hamel or Martinpuich, 1916.
- The “Before and After” pictures, via the EDSITEment-reviewed “Photos of the Great War”
- What do you imagine the experience of emerging from a WWI trench was like for a soldier? To what can you compare such an experience?
- What do you think of the war-devastated landscape? How would you feel if you lived in such a European city after WWI?
- What emotional effects do the before and after picture elicit? Compare these pictures to contemporary images (of September 11th, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, etc.)