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 * 4-C-1 Pat Cassner **

8.1.2B Synthesize and evaluate historical comprehension 8.1.12C Evaluate historical interpretation of events 8.1.12D Synthesize historical research
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Listen to eyewitness accounts of soldier’s life during World War I. Research and locate photographs of World War I. Interpret chart. Analyze primary photographs. Create a collage with primary photographs. Discuss various propaganda techniques. Identify propaganda techniques used in sample posters. View liberty bond posters and recruitment posters from World War I. Create an original poster with at least one propaganda method.
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Computer Printer drawing paper markers color pencils primary photographs Handout on propaganda methods Websites: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []
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Complete a KWL chart on the life of a soldier during World War One. Class activity will be to discuss this prior knowledge. Listen to the teacher reading several eyewitness accounts of soldiers during World War I. Research and locate six primary photographs that depict the life of a soldier placing emphasis on trench warfare, gas attacks and artillery attacks. Students will locate a photograph of a cemetery in France. Students can use their own sources or start their search with the above suggested websites. Partners will use SEA method to analyze 3 photographs. Class activity will be to discuss and interpret the casualty chart from []. Each student will create an original collage. The collage needs to have a cemetery as the focal point and six primary pictures depicting the horrors of war. Class activity will be to discuss various propaganda methods. View websites of World War One liberty bonds and recruitment posters. Complete NARA for one poster; noting the propaganda method used. Identify propaganda method used in sample student posters on the bulletin board. Realizing the horrors of war, create an original poster encouraging people to buy liberty bonds or enlist in the army to help with the war effort.
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Complete SEA analysis of photographs. Create a collage. Complete a NARA for a liberty bond poster Create an original poster
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Critical thinking skills are addressed in various ways in this lesson plan. The KWL chart requires students to examine prior knowledge and formulate questions on what they would like to learn. Choosing photographs requires students to critically think and evaluate. Planning, organizing and executing a project like the collage and propaganda poster taps into crticial thinking skills. The SEA, NARA methods and itdentifying propaganda in a poster demands thorough examination rather than a cursory glance. Interpretation of the casualty chart requires higher level thinking.

The American Cultures curriculum covers an in depth study of World War I. This lesson is emphasizing the hardship of the American soldier, the reality of death, and propaganda methods used in posters to enlist the help of American citizens for the war effort.

Pat, This lesson asks for students to do a lot and involves higher order thinking skills - they have to use what they already know and have to think about what they would like to know. I like that they have to choose their own photos instead of you simply handing them various pictures to use. This forces them to really think about what pictures they are choosing, why, and how each belongs on a collage to emphasize the hardship that soldiers faced during WWI. Propaganda is such a major force in any war, that students really do need to understand how it is used - which when they create their own propaganda poster, they really show that they understand it. Really nice work - great use of a variety of techniques we have been practicing in this course. - Christy McCanna Pat, I really like this lesson and see how it can be integrated into a English curriculum as well. Reading something like Johnny Got His Gun and relate it to the pictures. World War I was a horrific war and the men who fought faced terrible conditions that were very different (though certainly no less devastating) than our wars today. Your lesson certainly allows them to compare what is happening today and to see if there is any propaganda at work today. Very nice lesson. May I pass this lesson on to a colleague at my school? //Shirley//