Lesson Title: Trench Warfare Standards: ELP Standard-Writing Standard 1: The student will express his or her thinking

and ideas in a variety of writing genres. LI-1 writing one or more narrative paragraphs based on real and imagined events that include characters, dialogue, plot, and setting. Common Core Standard- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem. AZ Social Studies Standard-Concept 7: Emergence of the Modern U.S. PO 3. Analyze events which caused a transformation of the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: f. World War I (e.g., League of Nations, Isolationism) Time: 105 mins, two class periods Terminal Objective: SWBAT explain conditions in trenches during World War I by writing a letter to someone at home that includes at least 5 historical facts. Bellwork (7 mins): If you were building a new gas mask, what is the first thing you would change? What is your strategy for surviving life in the trenches? Blooms Knowledge Sub-objective Students will be able to explain the effects of chlorine and mustard gases. Students will be able to draw a battlefield that includes at least four Time 10 mins Teaching Strategy Lecture Active Student Participation Students will fill portions a note taker during the lecture and then write 4-5 sentences about gas effects. Students will fill portions a note taker during the lecture and

Application

8 mins

Lecture

labeled elements of trench warfare. SWBAT identify feelings they think soldiers would have had in WWI based upon simulation. SWBAT identify feelings they think soldiers would have had in WWI based upon viewing of photos and listening to excerpts from All Quiet on the Western Front. SWBAT explain conditions in trenches during World War I by writing a letter to someone at home that includes at least 5 historical facts.

Application

20 mins

Simulation

Application

30 mins

Photo viewing and All Quiet on the Western Front readings

then be handed a half sheet to draw and label their own trench warfare scene. After trench warfare simulation, students will identify how they think soldiers would have felt by recording their thoughts in their notes. Students will view photo while listening to book excerpts, they will be recording their reactions in their notes to be used for their letters later.

Analysis

30 mins

Independent Practice

Students will write a letter to someone at home as if they were a soldier in World War I. They must explain conditions of trench warfare by including at least 5 historical facts.

Materials: Lecture Slides

Simulation Materials (twine, baby powder, Dust filter (gas) masks, balls, cones x8, lacrosse sticks or meter sticks, Frisbees, empty coffee can, drum stick, whistle, tarps or drop cloths, Newspaper (ammo), CD player, rat foldouts x2, poison gas label, army assignment slips, sound effects CD) Simulation (Adapted from Mike Cannon) Photos (with lecture slides) All Quiet on the Western Front readings Notetaker