Thursday, 23 April 2015

Day 39: Life on the battlefront

Current events:  Today marks the 10-year anniversary of YouTube.  How has YouTube changed the internet/society?  Click to watch

Review of questions from last day.

War technology Pg 40/41.
A look at war games today (Call of Duty) and how it compares to the warfare/technology during World War I.

All Quiet on the Western Front - based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque.
This is a "devastating story of war and a generation destroyed.  In 1914 a group of German schoolboys, idealistic and inflamed with youthful patriotism, set off to fight in the "glorious" war.  During their brutal basic training disenchantment begins; then, boarding a train for the front, they see the wounded being rushed back to hospitals.  They begin to grasp the grim reality of war.....Their youth is stripped away by the violence, and the boys become as sullen as veterans."

Handout:
Pg 35-47.
Describing battles on the Western front.
Contributions that Canadians made ont he home front (45/46)
Halifax Explosion (47).

Do Questions 2 and 3 on page 47.

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