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World War I WebQuest
What is it like to be in a conflict as a soldier?

Sol-dier (sol ' jer): a person serving in an army; member of an army.

During a war, it is the soldier who fights, often far from home. The soldier may come home a hero, a cripple or a corpse. Mainly, we just hope they can survive in one piece, and, perhaps, triumph.

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 soldier 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 soldier during this conflict?"

    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.
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/soldier_wq.html]

Now turn this sheet over and begin your webquest

Visit these sites:

Set #1: you are there…

The Lost battalion Incident

 

Commemoration of the Battle of Sommes:

Events of the battle

War Diary of the Newfoundland Regiment

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Set #2: the military officers

American troops: Americans had to do it 'their way'

The 51st Division: War Sketches: The story, in sketches and captions, of this Scottish division of the British Army.

Read the captions and view theses sketches: #1, #4, # 9, # 18, #21, #31, #33, #34, #38 & #45.

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Set #3: labor and religious leaders

30,000 US Women were there
as you read this page, be sure to click on 'unsung women'

Black Yankee's: An Interview with Thomas Davis

Faces on the troops

Click here to see faces of participants

Sergeant York

most decorated American of World War I

optional site:

This is a somber site, discussing the procedures for the burial of the dead in the battlefields.

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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 soldier?

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