| Key Questions |
Activities |
Resources |
| What happened during the
First World War? |
Watch People's Century 1914:
Killing Fields |
Killing Fields People's
Century website. This video is also available on an electronic
copy for you to watch on your laptop. |
| How do we understand the
First World War? |
Student led seminars and
presentations on allocated topics on World War I. |
Neil Stewart The Changing
Nature of Warfare
Vyvyen Brendon The First
World War.
Cawood and McKinnon-Bell The First World War
Wolfson and Laver Years of Change Chapter VII |
| Why did the First World War
become a defensive war? |
Reading and note taking Brendon
(28-33)
Research the technical nature of trench warfare.
|
Vyvyen Brendon The First
World War Chapter 3.
|
| The failure of alternatives:
case studies of Verdun and the Somme. |
Note taking Brendon
(33-38) |
Vyvyen Brendon The First
World War |
| Experiencing the Trenches |
Note taking Brendon
(38-49) |
Vyvyen Brendon The First
World War
IGCSE website |
| To what extent did the First
World War mark a turning point in the nature of warfare? |
Read Stewart (Chapter
5) Make a electronic copy of the study guide on page 101 and expand
all the headings by giving examples from your reading of the
text.
|
Neil Stewart The Changing
Nature of Warfare (76-101)
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