Letter from the Trenches

Yesterday, everyone worked on their letters from the trenches.
Today, Mr Byrne looked at the results of the letters.

The class then looked at the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen.

The Trenches

Today, Mr Byrne continued the work from last week on weapons. The source analysis questions had to be completed. Extended response question was handed up for marking.

Next, Mr Byrne gave out the trench outline sheet and the source analysis activity. Before beginning work on the trench diagram, class watched the video clip (link on the sheet).

Students then completed the diagram by adding 10 elements, labels, descriptions, etc.

Finally, using the sources, video clip and diagram, students wrote a letter home from the trenches.

The Stalemate

Today, we defined the terms in Question 1, Trench Activities - Some Questions:
 Edmodo/Core Study-WW1/SchlieffenPlan2.pdf;

Read and discussed pp 212-217 in Retrospective on the reasons for the stalemate continuing:

Edmodo/Retrospective/Chap113.pdf;

Looked at the structure of the British Army, discussed the basics of trench warfare and considered what was meant to happen in an attack:
Edmodo/Core Study-WW1/SchlieffenPlan2.pdf.