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Students will read primary documents from suffrage workers and female WWI contributors to discover their feelings toward not being allowed to vote.

Students will compare an aerial photograph from WWI to a current Google.com satellite map and a street map of the current area.

Activities that help students think and work like historians

Activities that help students think and work like historians

Students will use Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Henri Barbusse's Under Fire, and letters written home by American soldiers to compare the experiences of different participants in World War I.

Individual capstone project for a unit on World War I. Students use primary sources to develop insight into the personal side of the Great War. Students will use archive based research to create a story about one particular soldier.

This is lecture activity using power discussing the importance of and impact of WWI specifically from the point of view of Harry S. Truman. The lecture follows the decision of the 33 year old veteran from the farm to France leaving his mom and sister.

In this activity, students will use primary source posters and other documents from the World War I era to learn about the ways in which the United States mobilized for war.

Students will learn the reasons for the US entering WWI, as well as being exposed to WWI propaganda which can be related to wartime propaganda in general.

Choice of various writing assignments.