Good Morning!!! 1. NVC 2.Intro to Trench Warfare 3.Soldier Poetry: the Voices of Dead Men Essential Question: How did the attitudes of soldiers fighting in WWI change during the course of the war? Homework: Propaganda Activity DUE MONDAY
Trench Warfare Schlieffen Plan: German plan to avoid fighting a Two-Front War Plan Fails – Stalemate ensues – Late 1914, the first trenches are dug – Trench Warfare: soldiers fight each other from fortified tunnels dug in the ground
Surrounded by the dead
Cannot even see your enemy
Poison Gas
“No Man’s Land”: The space between trenches Land Mines Barbed Wire
Mud!
Trench Foot
Soldier Poetry “How do you fight? “In Flanders Fields” – &feature=related &feature=related “Dulce et Decorum est” –
Exit Ticket: Soldier Poetry How did the attitudes of soldiers fighting in WWI change during the course of the war? Address all 3 poems.