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Title: World War I WebQuest: "And You Are There . . . "

Topic: World War I, Veteran's Day, soldiers, war

Subject: Social Sciences, Language Arts

Grades: 9-12

URL: http://www.milforded.org/schools/foran/kdefonzo/wq/worldwar1b.html

Overview: Students work in teams to research the history and affects of World War I. Assuming the roles of reporter, soldier, politician and women, team members complete written projects related to their positions. For example, the reporter writes a two-page newspaper critique on cultural works created during the war and the soldier writes several one-page journal entries. Teams present their completed projects to the class.

Background:

• The URL http://www.cfcsc.dnd.cal/links/milhist/wwi.html has changed to http://www.forces.ca/commelec/brhistory/chap3_e.htm.
• The URL http://www.li~rdh/wwi/links.html has changed to http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/.
• The URL http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/20th_Century/World_War_I has changed to http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/By_Time_Period/
  20th_Century/Military_History/World_War_I/.
• The URL http://www.enteract.com/~jgins/wwI.htm is no longer available.

Reporter:

• The URL http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets has changed to http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/.
• The link to http://www.worldwar1.com/sfpost.htm is incomplete. The complete link is http://www.worldwar1.com/sfpost.htm.

Soldier:

• The URL http://finsysgp.com/macbob/RLM_Diary.html has changed to http://www.finsysgp.com/macbob/RLM_Diary.html.
• The URL http://infor.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro is incorrect. The correct address for this site is http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/.
• The URLs http://www.zen.co.uk/home/page/tony-j/ww1, http://www.amug.org/~avishai/WWISS.html, http://www.amug.org/~avishai/WWICol.html, http://www.amug.org/~avishai/WWI.html, and http://www.finsysgp.com/macbob/Test/Diary9.html are no longer available. Encourage students to research other online sources to find more information about WWI soldiers.

Politician:

• The URL http://www.history.sfasu.edu/WarHistory1.html has changed to http://www.history.sfasu.edu/WWI-Posters/WarHistory1.html.
• The URL http://www.enteract.com/~jgins/wwI.htm is no longer available.

Women: The URL http://spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWhamiltonC.htm is incorrect. The correct URL is http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWhamiltonC.htm.

Credits: Great War Photographs: The URL http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/humanities/rose/trench3 has changed to http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/humanities/rose/images.html.

Article by Lois Lewis
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