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World War I

The aim of this lesson is to question how frightening it was to fight on the Western Front.

This lesson centres around the case of Private Harry Farr who was shot for ‘misbehaving before the enemy in such a manner as to show cowardice.’

Students re-enact his court martial using the witness statements before his sentencing and ultimately decide if his sentence was justified…

The start of the lesson requires them to define a coward and more importantly question what shellshock is, which the Government at the time refused to recognise.

Students will analyse why so many soldiers refused to fight and preferred to desert instead fully aware of the consequences of their actions.

The students will use visual and source evidence and apply higher order thinking skills at the end of the lesson in an extended piece of writing.

The plenary questions students’ beliefs on cowardice and challenges their original assumptions at the beginning of the lesson.

The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited throughout to show the progress of learning.

The resource includes suggested teaching strategies and differentiated materials, and comes in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.

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With the National Curriculum in mind, I have created a set of resources for ‘the challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day’ which focus on the First World War and the Peace Settlement. The aims of this bundle are to know and understand how frightening World War 1 was from its inception with the alliance system and the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand to the battlefields on the Western Front and how industrialisation changed the fighting into a static war of attrition. I have created , readapted and used these lessons to challenge and engage students, but also to show how much fun learning about this part of history really is. Students will learn and understand key historical skills throughout such as the continuity and change in the recruitment of men for Kitchener’s army, the causes of the war and the consequences which followed, the similarities and differences of the weapons used on the battlefields, the significance of women on the Home Front and Empire soldiers in the trenches and interpretations about whether it is fair to call Field Marshall Haig as the ‘Butcher of the Somme.’ Each lesson comes with retrieval practice activities, suggested teaching and learning strategies and are linked to the latest historical interpretations and debate from the BBC and other sources. The lessons are fully adaptable and can be changed to suit. The 14 lessons are broken down into the following: L1 The long term causes of WWI L2 The short term causes of WWI L3 Recruitment in WWI L4 Why build trenches? L5 Was life in the trenches all bad? L6 Is it fair to call Haig ‘the Butcher of the Somme’? L7 Cowardice in WWI L8 War in the Air L9 Weapons of WWI L10 The role of women in WWI L11 Conscientious Objectors L12 The end of WWI and the Armistice L13 The Treaty of Versailles L14 Empire Soldiers Key Word Literacy Display included All the resources come in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change. The lessons also include differentiated materials and suggested teaching strategies.

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