Gold: Lab 225 for project workday. I hope all of you have a wonderful break! May the New Year bring you lots of fun and excitment (but of course you are in my class, so you get that anyway!)  Merry Christmas!

Gold: Computer lab 225 for project

Silver: Lab 225 to get on www.firstworldwar.com. Get the assignment under WWI (ch 16). Answer the questions and play the bbc trench game

Silver: Slides 35-39 on the new notes!!! Be sure to get them under notes, chapter 16 sec 1,2 and 4. We watched clips of Legends of the Fall, talked about the trenches. Answer these questions: How do you think the new weapons inventions helped to turn trench warfare into a stalemate? How did those weapons help give No Man’s Land its nickname?

Gold: Slides 35-39. Read the excerpts from some British soldier’s diaries. Now, imagine you are a soldier. Write a letter home from the trenches describing what conditions are like,   your job, weapons you see,  what you do all day and who you are fighting. Write in character. If you are British, put in an accent! ‘ello Guvner! Don’t forget a date (btw 1914 and 1918) and who you are writing to!

Gold: Lab 225″ Get on the www.firstworldwar.com site (see links) and answer the questions on the trench warfare handout (see ch 16 for a copy). What was life like for a doughboy? Read and find out! Next, pretend you are in command. Play the bbc game and navigate your way through the trenches!

Silver: Mapping the alliances of WWI. See me for a copy. Compare and contrast the map of Europe in 1914 to after the war using a Venn diagram!

Silver: QUIZ!!!! Causes of WWI!!!

GOLD: Library for project!!!!!!!!!!