This half-term Year 8 are studying World War One.
During lesson time we'll be considering the questions below as part of our unit
of work
- Why did men volunteer?
- How successful was trench warfare?
- What was life like in the trenches?
- How was new technology used?
- How was life in Britain affected by the War?
You will be creating a scrapbook based on at
least two different areas of our study:
- Volunteering
- Life on the battlefields
- Experiences at the Somme or Ypres
- Life on the Homefront
Each scrapbook must contain:
- Diary entries of at least one person describing and explaining the topic area
- Diary entries of at least one person describing and explaining the topic area
- Appropriate historical sources such as
photographs, posters, letters and postcards
The purpose is to create at least one, if not more,
fictional characters who are able to explain the topic areas using evidence
available to the historian.
The most exciting scrapbooks will contain
first-person diary entries that explain the topic areas by specifically
pointing to collected evidence. For example, if a character saw a particular
poster that made him want to join his local battalion then why not add that
poster to the scrapbook?
You can use the information we gather in class as
well to help support the work but must also use homework time to research
further and create these the scrapbook.
To help students organise themselves the History
Department has its own Pinterest page with three different boards packed with
primary and secondary sources that you could use (Volunteering, Trench Life, Homefront)
Lessons
have been planned to help students study these areas. However, be aware that
the bulk of the task is to be completed out of lessons.
If
you are particularly interested in looking at this from a local angle see our
new display outside the history classrooms about some men from Aylsham who
served and died in World War One.
