Using the research packs on Trench Warfare.

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Using the research packs on Trench Warfare.
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What was it like to be a soldier in the trenches?

• Group work and Investigation

AIM By the end of this lesson you will have used
evidence to build up a picture of life in the
trenches to use in your research.
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What was it like to be a soldier in the trenches?

• Use the pack of evidence provided to describe
  life in the trenches
• Work in groups of 4 each person to take about 2
  pieces of evidence
• Read the evidence and use the prompt questions to
  write a couple of bullet points about your
  evidence.
• After 15 minutes be prepared to report your
  findings to the group
• As a group decide on 10 statements about trenches
  - that can be backed up by the evidence - to
  include in your report back to the class. You
  have 10 mins.
• You will need to comment on discipline, how well
  equipped the soldiers were, living conditions
  including where they slept and ate and the
  effects of the war on the soldiers and their
  families
• This information will be needed when you do a
  piece of work on Fighting in World War I

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A What information can you get from the records? How were sore feet prevented? What was the relationship between officers and soldiers? What this source tell us about trench life
B What type of evidence is this? Where was the photo taken? What are the soldiers doing? What this source tells us about trench life
C What is the evidence? Date? Written by? Who is Fritz? What this source tells us about trench life
D What is the evidence? What is being advertised? How quick was delivery to the trenches? What this source tells us about trench life
E What is this source? What are the people wearing? Why? What is the machine and what advantage does it give? What this source tells us about trench life
F What is this evidence? What is the letter? Who wrote it? Are there any connections to source c? What this source tells us about trench life
G What is the evidence? When and where was it written? Who is the patient? Why is he in hospital? What this source tells us about trench life
H What is happening in the first photo? What obstacles or hazards face the soldiers? Why has the landscape changed? What this source tells us about trench life
I What is this source and how was it used? What information could the sender give? Why was this? What this source tells us about trench life
J What is this source? When was it sent and who was it sent to? What do you learn about Private Colebrook? What this source tells us about trench life
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What do they mean?

• Blighty Britain
• Tommy slang for British soldier
• Fritz slang for a German soldier
• shrapnel broken bits of metal from an explosion
• Siegfried Sassoon a soldier and poet
• Craiglockhart War hospital mental hospital
• pacifist people who believed it was wrong to
  fight
• justifiable can be justified or done for good
  reasons
• censor to control information
• The Front where the fighting takes place

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Push it further!

• Can you find any connection between any of the
  evidence?
• Source C and source F- dates and same regiment.
  Could the letters be sent to the same person?
• What other information would you need to prove a
  connection?

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After 15 mins report your findings to the rest of
the group
What does the evidence tell us about The
fighting Equipment Discipline Sleeping and
eating Effects of the war on soldiers and families

• As a group prepare a list of statements which can
  be backed up by evidence about life in the
  trenches
• You should end up with about 10