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. Mud. Mud affected every aspect of a soldier’s life:. what they ate, what they drank, how they. breathed, what they wore, how they. walked, their health.. Source 1. Mud... enveloped men of the front line. As a farm labourer at 'Akenfield', Davie was man used to hardship, but he was in no doubt about the importance of mud. 'Did you kill men, Davie?' 'I got several.' 'What was the worst, Davie?' 'Why, the wet, of course.' Where rain met bare earth or shelled earth, it spawned feet of mud. Boyd Orr reckoned that forty Englishmen a night were drowned in it. Nicholson on the Somme saw a man stuck fast for sixty-five hours, with two men pulling on ropes finally freeing him though with his clothing sucked down by the mud. . By: Alexis Angelakis. Construction of trenches. Building a trench . took about six . hours for 450 men to . build 250 . meters of . that trench. . After . this, . barbed wire, board walks, and sand . L.O: identify . key features of a typical . trench, identify . some of the conditions in the . trenches AND explain . what daily life in the trenches was like. Starter: Yes/No. Who am I. What is trench warfare?. 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 . Essential Question. What was life like in the trenches?. Learning Outcomes - Students will:. Preview – WW1 Description. Learn about life in the trenches. Play an interactive game for life in the trenches. Airplanes. Wright brothers. 1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC they flew the first heavier than air plane. WWI was the first war to use airplanes. There would be air raids on cities like London for the very first time . 1. Trenches flooded often. “Through the winter, weariness and water were our chief enemies…One walked in the trenches in thigh-high boots with water above the knee, and one remembers the icy stream welling up inside the boot when you punctured it on concealed barbed wire…”. 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. . 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.. Wright brothers. 1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC they flew the first heavier than air plane. WWI was the first war to use airplanes. There would be air raids on cities like London for the very first time . Pilots would fight in the air in “dog fights” . 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. Moran. SWBAT:. . analyze different dangers of living in the trenches during WWI by answering questions based on notes, pictures, video clips, and readings from the textbook.. Trenches. Trenches were deep and narrow areas of dug out ground, often stretching for miles that troops used to fight in and defend from the .