Student Product: Blogs

http://bwade-trenchjournal.blogspot.com/2007/10/first-day.html

http://www.joemurray.blogspot.com/

http://www.klowers.blogspot.com/

http://www.jallery.blogspot.com/

http://www.agpickett.blogspot.com/

http://www.ansimmons.blogspot.com/

http://www.curtismclaughlin.blogspot.com/

http://www.matthewkaras.blogspot.com/

http://www.asmerritt.blogspot.com/

http://www.alspanos.blogspot.com/

http://srhodes.blogspot.com/2007/10/trench-journal-literary-analysis.html

http://rwachowiak.blogspot.com/

http://www.nasselstine.blogspot.com/

http://www.rknox.blogspot.com/

Aim for the Stars!!

Goal: *to integrate multimedia with language in effort to capture and portray the life of the solder as depicted in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Remarque.

Goal: *to influence and expand student's literary analysis (using both print and non-print text) via advertised trailers of modern day cinema - in other words to challenge students to access their world and its surrounding media (movie trailers) to create a blogspot mimicking a trench journal of the life of the soldier during WWI using similar technique as those trailers advertising modern day movies.

For example, the film American Gangster portrays war of a different kind - and the movie trailer is designed to show how the interaction of people, issues and events effect reaction. It is this interchange of emotion which the student strives to capture in his/her blogspot for the soldier of WWI. Here is the movie trailer:
http://www.americangangster.net/

Likewise, the film Vantage Point portrays another type of war -See the trailer:
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/vantagepoint/site/main.html

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*Please note that some of the historical search information has been copied and modified from a World War I Web Quest: http://www.studyguide.org/allquietonwesternfront.htm,
and we are deeply indebteded to aid from this alliance.

Trench Journal - Battlefield Orders

Open a blog account at https://www.blogger.com/start
Your URL for your personal blog should be your first initial, last name. For example: Rick's blog would be rwachowiak.blogspot.com


CREATE YOUR BLOG TRENCH JOURNAL.
USE THESE TOP SECRET SITES to lead you to web pages of the "Allies" (English, French, and Americans):
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/WWI/WWI.html
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc

MAKE SURE TO collect 2 or 3 pictures of World War 1 that you can print/copy and place in your trench journal.

BATTLEFIELD ORDERS (aka RESEARCH/WEB QUEST surrounding WWI)
1. Research weapons used in the Great War and explain how they are changing the face of war in 1918. Weapons to explore: flamethrower, tank, machine gun, submarine, airplane, and 3" mortar.

2. Explain what "no man's land" is and draw an illustration of it.

3. How is gas used as a biological weapon in the Great War? What types of gas are used, and what is their effects?

4. Who is the Red Baron? Why is he famous, and how does he die?

5. What is the Schlieffen Plan, and is it working in 1917?

6. Explain how the Archduke's assassination is a catalyst for the war.

7. Find Helen Burrey's 1917 journal. Summarize the information that you find.

8. Draw an illustration of a typical set of trenches used in France during WW I. one.

9. Explain the concept of "Pal Battalions" and evaluate whether or not they were a good strategy for the German and English armies.

Trench Journal - Literary Analysis

LITERARY ANALYSIS (my favorite!)

FOR EACH CHAPTER OF AQWF(there are 12 chapters), please complete the following entries:

A. Write an account of what Paul witnesses (based on actual happenings in the text)

B. Write a journal entry of what Paul must feel like

C. Identify and define 2 vocabulary words for each chapter. Please also record the sentence in which the word appears. Remember to use MLA format.

D. Find a WWI political cartoon and write what this cartoon exposes about war

E. What did you learn in this chapter about war? About life? About friendship? About family?

Feel free to decorate your blog appropriate to reflect your feelings as a soldier in WWI.

Trench Journal - Interview

INTERVIEW (ANALYSIS/EXTENSION/Graduation Project benchmark)
Read some letters from soldiers (you can find them on the web).
Design 5 interview questions you would ask the soldier who wrote the letter.

Trench Journal - Writing Extension

WRITING/EXTENSION for overall novel1. Choose a character and write a letter home as this character would.

2. Find a poem or song lyric to extend Paul’s mood in this chapter, and write about how your poem/song mimics Paul’s feelings

3. Find a piece of art which expresses something important going on in this chapter, and write a paragraph explaining how the art reflects the chapter.

Trench Journal - Self - Reflection

SELF REFLECTION (ANALYSIS/EXTENSION/Graduation Project benchmark)
1. Review your trench journal (blog format or journal format) and comment on your work product for this project.

2. Did you like this project? Why?

3. How does your work reflect your learning?
4. What did you learn about yourself?
5. What did you learn about war? About life’s lessons?