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The document outlines a series of tasks for a project on the First World War, focusing on personal experiences and reflections related to trench life. Tasks include creating a scrapbook with recruitment posters, writing letters home, and researching various jobs in the trenches. Additional activities involve documenting the Battle of Somme, pastimes in the trenches, and the impact of animals during the war.

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trench project task sheet scaffolding

The document outlines a series of tasks for a project on the First World War, focusing on personal experiences and reflections related to trench life. Tasks include creating a scrapbook with recruitment posters, writing letters home, and researching various jobs in the trenches. Additional activities involve documenting the Battle of Somme, pastimes in the trenches, and the impact of animals during the war.

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Trench Project: Extra Guidance

Task 1:

Find two recruitment posters for 1st WW use P20 white textbook for ideas (use
Google image).
Glue them into your scrapbook title of page “OFF TO WAR” and then write
around them how they made you feel and why you joined up, who you joined up
with etc. Were you in a Pals Battalion? Maybe add a white feather that you find
on the floor and explain what it meant.

Task 2:

Find a picture of your kit & weapons & glue them in, label them. Source 3 P22
gives a list of kit.

Task 3:

Get a picture of troops arriving in France, glue in and write underneath what your
first impressions were – destruction, seeing injured men etc.

Task 4:

Write a letter home explaining what life in the trenches was like – use your notes
about lice, rats, trench foot – discuss trench design (German ones better) etc. –
get a sense of how your character feels.

Task 5:

Research a few jobs in the trenches e.g. tunnelling, stretcher bearer, messenger,
guard duty, aircraft reconnaissance (could be first time you have seen an
aircraft) ground reconnaissance - pre raid party to cut wires and check on
German positions.

Write notes around the pictures of various jobs, which ones have you done,
which ones would you like to do? Which ones scare you?

Task 6: The Battle of Somme

Maybe write a newspaper article about the battle P41-45 of Britain and the Great
War useful plus lesson notes.
Write a diary entry talking about your involvement in the battle – your fears,
thoughts etc. Maybe you lose a friend?
Add details on gas attacks here.
Task 7: Pastimes in the Trenches

Write a page on different pastimes e.g. playing cards, writing poems, doing
drawings, de-lousing. You could glue pictures in and write detail around them.

Task 8: Bonus/extra

Maybe write a letter home or diary entry about animals in the 1 st World War –
maybe include a picture of a carrier pigeon or a horse, make up a name & a little
story to go with the picture.

Task 9:

A picture of a tank, write a little note about what it is and how you felt when you
first saw it. When/where was it used? Was it effective?

END:

Either bring you soldier home, maybe end with 11 th November 1918 – and write a
diary entry/letter to mark the armistice

Or

Be cruel and kill him off, maybe he could write a diary/letter in October 1918
expressing his hopes that the war is nearly over, and then add an after note by a
friend or family member explaining that he didn’t survive.

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