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World War I WebQuest
What is it like to be in a conflict as a journalist, war correspondent or
news editor?

Journalists and Newspapers not only reported the War, they also helped support and shape the views of their nation.

Instructions:

Your task is to follow each of the following pairs of links. After visiting each set of sites, your team should:

  1. Discuss what it was like to be a journalist, news editor or war correspondent during World War I, as if you were this participant.
  2. Go to your team’s worksheet and write down an understanding or truth, based on the set #1 workstation/internet sites that you just visited [see below]
  3. Then proceed to the next pair of sites of materials and repeat steps 1 and 2
  4. When you have visited, discussed and written down your understandings from the 3 sets of websites and/or other work stations that you visited, you will then complete the last section of your worksheet that answers the question "What was it like to be a journalist, news editor or war correspondent during this conflict?"
  5. Remember, in the next stage [Stage 2] of this WebQuest, each member of your team will be sharing your team’s response with a larger group of participants. Make sure your understanding and analysis will help this larger group understand the essential question.
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Remember - your entire team will be assessed on what you write down and turn in!
Be sure to use your BACK button to keep returning to this site!

[http://www.sonic.net/bantam1/news_wq.html]

Now turn this sheet over and begin your webquest

Visit these sites:

Set #1: selling the idea

The Augusta Chronicle's headline of the year 1914

The Augusta Chronicle's headline of the year 1915

Propaganda Leaflets

 

 

NOTES:

 

Set #2: Getting the war news home

Power of the Press: Lesson 1

Read the two intro paragraphs, then scroll to the bottom of the page and read documents #4, #6, #7 and #8

(Be sure to read the 2nd pages of these documents)

The Zimmerman Telegram

Review both the historical background section and the telegram received section. Click on coded and uncoded

The Augusta Chronicle's headline: 1917

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Set #3: getting the war news home

War correspondent - Floyd Gibbons at Belleau Wood

Read the section between the picture Floyd is given a hometown... all the way to Approaching General Logan's statue..., then read the very bottom from Endnote...

NOTES:

When you have completed viewing and analyzing the three sets of information, on a separate sheet of paper, synthesize the information from your notes into one statement:

What is it like to be in a conflict as a journalist in the combat zone?

Remember: this is not a report about... You are to respond in the voice of your participant.