MEH Assignments & Class Work

April 6 - 10, 2009.

Starred Items Should be in Your Notebook on Friday, April 10, 2009.
Quicklinks
Monday; Tuesday; Wednesday; Thursday; Friday; Important Reminders.
You must email your completed assignments as a single, appropriately-titled MS Word document, using the
provided template (work submitted in any other format, or titled incorrectly, will not be accepted and will be
marked as a zero), to Dr. Ratliff by 3:00 pm on Friday, April 10, 2009.

Failure to meet this requirement will result in a one-letter-grade deduction on your work if submitted at 3:01 pm on Friday; a two-
letter-grade deduction if submitted at any time on Saturday; a three-letter-grade deduction if submitted on Sunday. Your assignment will not
be accepted after 3:00 pm on Sunday. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Monday:
Logical Fallacy – Red Herring – 25 points.
Two Parts
A. A brief explanation of Red Herring.
B. One example of Red Herring in common usage.
A Story that Matters, p. 716. – 5 points.
1. When and where did this battle begin? 3. What was no man’s land?
2. Who were the opposing forces? 4. What details in the story suggest that this was, in
fact, a Great War?
Reading Checks , 23.1 – 10 points.
Using primary documents exercise. To be done in class today, tomorrow if we don’t have
enough time:
1. Look online for a speech delivered by Woodrow Wilson or another leader, explaining the reasons
for their entrance into WWI.
2. Analyze that leader’s argument.
3. How might someone opposed to the war counter these arguments?
4. You will find Brigham Young Library’s World War I Document Archive very helpful.

Tuesday:
Using Primary Documents – 10 points.
Terror as a weapon of war. Visit the BYU WWI Archive and read the following
documents: The Black Hand; The Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand; and The Narodna
Odbrana. – 20 points.
o You must then find three more documents from the BYU WWI Archive dicussing
these type of violent nationalist organization.
o Then, write a two paragraph comparison of the Balkan terrorist groups during
WWI and the terrorist of today.
Secret Alliances. While you work on the your terror as a weapon of war project, I am
going to give you a slip of paper with the name and email address of one of your
classmates. You’ll contact that person by email or google/yahoo chat and arrange an
alliance. They may ask you to ally with another member of the class, too. You make
make any alliance you want.
o You are not tell anyone, other than your allies, about your mutually agreed upon commitments.
o You may also make a comittment to one ally and not to another. Again, you can’t tell anyone about
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Wednesday:
Reading Checks, 23.2 – 10 points.
Read the “Willy-Nicky” Telegrams. What can these correspondences tell us about the
nature of relations between European leaders on the eve of war in 1914? – 5 points.
Thursday:
We’ll look at trench warfare. Robert E. Lee & James Longstreet pioneered it, more-or-
less, but the British, French, Germans made it a fine art.
o Take a virtual tour of a WW I trench.
o Listen to a Brit talk about life in a trench.
o Private Archie Surfleet, 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment: '...as soon as you
warm up those blasted lice start to bite like the devil.'
o Major Walter Vignoles, 10th Lincolnshire Regiment: 'There are millions!! Some
are huge fellows, nearly as big as cats...'
Write a one paragraph description of the average soldier’s daily life in World War I - 15
points.
Friday:
Technology during WWI.
o Have a virtual dogfight.
o Get Gassed.
o Be slaughtered in an open field.
Begin discussing Russia’s internal affairs.

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