You will edit and illustrate a book on a poem written during and about World War I. Your book will set the poem in historical context by giving us background about the Great War and its results. You will then illustrate the poem with appropriate photos, drawings, paintings, etc.An inviting and illustrated cover with the title, author of the poem, and your name as author and editor.
1. A well-written introduction about the long term causes and importance of the Great War. (See pages 621-624 and journal entry 2 and 3).
2. Timeline of the short term causes of the war.(See journal entry 4)
3. Map of Europe in 1914 showing the allies, Central Powers, neutral countries, Western and Eastern Fronts, and major battles (get back map from teacher and see page 631).
4. About the author. A short written section that tells us who the author was, where he/she was born and brought up, what happened to him/her, a little about why the author may have written the poem, and a photo (if possible). If this information is not available, write a summary explaining where you looked for it.
5. The poem, written stanza by stanza, with an appropriate font and illustrations. Students may use drawings, paintings, photographs and illustrations. You may make a picture book, a pop-up book, a book with flaps to open, etc. When making your illustrations, you should consider meaning, tone, color, texture, the appropriate image, etc. Students should also include explanations for terms and vocabulary words in the end notes.
6. A well-written interpretation of the poem. This should include (a) a paraphrase of the poem, (b) an explanation of literary terms found in the poem, and (c) an explanation of what the poet is saying about war. This section should be three paragraphs long.
7. A well-written epilogue about the results of the war including casualties, territorial changes, changes in governments, changes to society (changes for women, disabled veterans). (See journal entry 10)
8. Map of Europe in 1918 showing the territorial changes, new nations that resulted after the peace treaties were signed. (handout from teacher, see page 636).
Links to World War I Poetry:
Lost Poets of the Great
War
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/index.html
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
http://www.pitt.edu/~novosel/owen.html
Flanders Field
http://www.IAEhv.nl/users/robr/poppies.html
A web site about the
popular poem by John McCrae.
Siegfried Sassoon
http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/sassoon/
Rupert Brooke
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=184
Wilfred Owen Multimedia
Archive
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/
Introduction to World
War I Poetry
http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/
World War I Resources:
Trenches on the Web
http://worldwar1.com/
Doughboy Center-Story
of the American Expeditionary Forces
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/
This site has personnel
records, memoirs, photographs, and other information about Americans in
World War I.
World War I Remembered
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/newsid_197000/197437.stm
This web site from the
BBC has information about British participation in World War I and includes
information on battles, personal memoirs, letters, and poetry.
The Great War
http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/ww1.html
Chronology of World War
I
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Chronology.html
Interactive Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/timeline/intro.html
The Great War
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/index.html
A web site to accompany
the PBS Series with interviews and features about each episode.
Major Battles of World
War I
http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/humanities/rose/battle.html
The Heritage of the Great
War
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/8054/index.html
This site includes censored
war pictures (censored because they didn’t want the public to be aware
of the war’s brutality),
World War I-Memoirs
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/memoir.html
World War I-Image Archive
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/imagarch.html
Images of medals, maps,
and photographs. Much of it is under construction.
Imperial War Museum-Recollections
of War
http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/fww_rem/fwwsound.htm
Sound archives of World
War I recollections from soldiers, nurses, and civilians. There are also
posters and photographs.
Fatal Salient-World War
I Art and Letters
http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/fww_rem/fww-art.htm
An online exhibit from
the Imperial War Museum of the letters and paintings of Harold Sandys Williamson.
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia-World
War I
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm
World War I Resources
by Country
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/links.html
The Great War Society
http://www.mcs.com/~mikei/tgws/
Links to other World War
I Sites
http://www.mcs.com/~mikei/tgws/links.htm
Jack Turner’s War
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/turner/
The photo collections
a Jack Turner, a Canadian participant in World War I.
Links to World War I
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/turner/links.html
Canadians and the First
World War
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar
Other World War I Links
http://www.worldwar1.com/links.htm#links
French World War I Posters
http://www.history.sfasu.edu/BaylorExhibit.html#WarHistory
World War I songs, medals,
weapons, fads, fashions, changes for women, etc.
http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm