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Student Letters from the Trenches

Objective: Students will apply what they have learned about the impact of technology on World War I to create an original letter written from the point of view of a World War I soldier.

Activity: Tell your students to pretend that they are a World War I soldier who has just survived a big battle. Then have them write a letter home to their family describing what took place and life in the trenches.

Assessment:Student letters can be evaluated based on the amount of information from the lecture they incorporated