World+War+I

__**Big Idea: Total War**__

U.S. History Standards: __** Benchmark 1, Indicator 6: **__ The student analyzes the reasons for and impact of the United States’ entrance into World War I. ** __Benchmark 1, Indicator 7:__ ** The student analyzes how the home front was influenced by United States involvement in World War I (e.g., Food Administration, Espionage Act, Red Scare, influenza, Creel Committee). media type="custom" key="4514638" Make sure to create only one Google Doc entitled World War I and put all of your assignments from this unit on it. You can also use your wikispace to post your assignments. ** Look at the slideshow found above and the various causes of World War I. - A great graphic is found on slide #3. 1) Explain what these causes are in your own words. 2) Which of these causes do you see today? Provide some specific examples. You have to explain a minimum of four causes. 3) Do you see any of these causes with the U.S. war with Iraq?
 * __Assignment 1:__
 * These will be graded using the Ideas and Content part of the Six Trait Writing Rubric. Each question is worth five points.
 * Remember these assignments are now worth 40% of your total grade.

media type="custom" key="4463279" [|World War I Podcasts] __**Assignment 2:**__ You can also use your wikispace to post your assignments. ** Pick five of the ten statements/questions to analyze and explain. 1) How would World War I propaganda look to a political campaign manager? 2) How would you feel if you were the torpedo that hit the Lusitania? 3) How would you feel if you were the newspaper announcing World War I? 4) Suppose the United States hadn't entered World War I, what would be the consequences? 5) Suppose World War I had expanded to the U.S., what would be the consequences? 6) How would you feel is you were the ink that the Espionage and Sedition act were written in? 7) Suppose you could keep the United States from trading with Europe during World War I, what would be the consequences? 8) How is the Sedition Act like a sock? 9) Get ideas from a Socialist Pamphlet to improve school. 10) What would happen if the Central Powers had won World War I? media type="custom" key="4519238" __**Assignment 3:**__ Listen to Bruce Springsteen's song "War." which is found above. You will have to open another tab but also read the lyrics found [|here]. - Research anti−war protests during World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War and the War in Iraq. 1) How are these protests similar and how are they different? 2) How does this song by Bruce Springsteen encompass what these protestors believed?
 * Make sure to create only one Google Doc entitled World War I and put all of your assignments from this unit on it.
 * These will be graded using the Ideas and Content part of the Six Trait Writing Rubric. Each question is worth five points.
 * Remember these assignments are now worth 40% of your total grade.
 * This will be graded using the Ideas and Content part of the Six Trait Writing Rubric. Each question is worth five points.
 * For example, How are protests during World War I similar and different to protests during Vietnam?

__**Assignment 4:**__ Wordle for "All Quiet on the Western Front" media type="custom" key="4795149" Read this excerpt from [|"All Quiet on the Western Front"] You can also listen to it by going here.

__** Do not do this!!! Assignment 5 Assessment:**__ Create a video over how the United States during World War I. Your video must include information over: - How the U.S. homefront was influenced by the U.S. entering World War I. - How was World War I a Total War ? There are a variety of different programs that are free on the internet. Click here to find a list of programs and see what works best for you. *** Put instructions on how to find your video in your Google Doc or Wikispace over World War I.**