Before the Holidays

On Thursday, 12/12/13 we completed the work on Changing Attitudes that we began during Tuesday's double.
I notified everyone that I would begin posting work on Edmodo on January 8.
We finished up with an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth - Corporal Punishment.

Changing Attitudes to the War

In Monday's double we began looking at the way in which attitudes, both on the battlefront and the home front,  changed during the course of the war.
Edmodo/Group Posts/8 Dec, 2013/Some Resources-Changing attitudes in WWI 
Resources - Blendspace
Edmodo/Core Study-WWI/12. War Poems, 13. The War Poets

We considered a number of the War Poets and their writings between 1914 and 1918 and noted the change in perspective during that time.  The Blendspace (see link above) provided a variety of resources - video clips to do with the Christmas Truce, images, web links, war poets, worksheet, quotes from men at the Front.  Some of these we used in class, some are for extra-reading etc.

In Tuesday's lesson we considered the reasons for the changing attitudes and then studied and catergorised a series of quotes from soldiers and others involved on the Western Front.
The quotes can be found at Resources - Blendspace.
Edmodo/Group Posts/8 Dec, 2013/Differing Perspectives