PPT-In the Trenches

DIRECTIONS Keepput chairs on the desks barbed wire Line up the front of your trench with backpacks and jackets Take a pen or pencil with you into the trench and sit on the carpet not in no mans land. **Take five minutes to write down two ideas/reactions you have about this quote**. What do you think it means?. What does it mean to be destroyed by the war? . World War 1: War in the Trenches . “All Quiet on the Western Front” . L/O – To identify the main changes in warfare brought about by the First World War. The Race to the Sea. The Battle of the Marne was a . turning point. . The Schlieffen Plan had failed. Germany was now caught up in a war on . Sassoon. 1886 - 1967. SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES. I . knew a simple soldier boy . Who grinned at life in empty joy, . Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, . And whistled early with the lark. . In . winter trenches, cowed and glum, . By Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front. The novel is fictional, but it is based upon Remarque’s personal experiences during the war.. It was first published in 1929. More than one million copies were sold, and it was translated into twenty-three languages.. 1914-1918.. LIFE AND DEATH . IN THE TRENCHES.. “Living and fighting in the trenches was a terrible and terrifying experience for all the soldiers involved” . What . evidence is there. for and against this statement?. BY: . SANJAE, ANGELA, LAURA, AND ELIZABETH. TRENCH CONSTRUCTION. The first trenches in World War 1 were created by the Germans after the Battle of the Marne in September 1914. . The trenches provided . Take a . copy of the reading . in your folder and read over the excerpts from Brookes diary. After completing the reading, in your warm-up section, describe the experiences of Bernard Joseph Brookes in your own words. Trench Warfare: . type of fighting during WWI in which both sides dug trenches (channels) protected by mines and barbed wire. British trench, France, July 1916…. This was taken during the Battle of Somme. When Canadian soldiers left for Europe and the war in the fall of 1914, most were expecting adventure, heroism, and excitement. What they encountered upon their arrival was much different, and far from glamorous. Soldiers were living in trenches- long, narrow ditches, dug by hand, that they would live in day and night. The trenches would often fill with water from the rai, and muddy puddles would fill the bottoms of the trenches, causing trench foot when soldiers would stand in the water for long periods of time. It was certainly a difficult way of life while fighting day in and day out.. Lesson objectives. "They left for war as boys never to return as men.". · . All will. – have a basic understanding of the main problems of life in the trenches and considered the usefulness of a number of primary sources. . Lesson objectives. All will be able to . describe what life was like in the trenches and begin to use sources to prove ideas. M. ost will be able to . explain what life was like and be able to analyse primary and secondary sources . Death. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line. . Inexperienced soldiers were cautioned against their natural inclination to peer over the parapet of the trench into No Man’s Land.. When Canadian soldiers left for Europe and the war in the fall of 1914, most were expecting adventure, heroism, and excitement. What they encountered upon their arrival was much different, and far from glamorous. Soldiers were living in trenches- long, narrow ditches, dug by hand, that they would live in day and night. The trenches would often fill with water from the rai, and muddy puddles would fill the bottoms of the trenches, causing trench foot when soldiers would stand in the water for long periods of time. It was certainly a difficult way of life while fighting day in and day out.. What was . the Western Front?. The Western Front. . The two main fronts:. . On your coloured and labeled map of the alliances in your workbook, mark the Western front and the Eastern front. . Schlieffen Plan.