1. Learning Objectives To place WWI on a timeline
To know that memorials are linked to specific events in the past that really happened
To use history as a starting point for designing a sculpture
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2. What is a war memorial?

3. World War I ‘The Great War’ 1914 - 1918

4. When did WW1 happen in relation to other moments in time?
Battle of Gravelines
(England Vs Spanish Armada)
Tudors, AD 1588
World War I
20th Century, AD 1914
Battle of Marathon
Ancient Greece, 490 BC
World War II
20th Century, AD 1939
Crimean War
Victorians, AD 1853
Falklands War,
20th Century, AD 1982
The Battle of Watling Street
Roman Britain, AD 60

5. World War II Memorial to Women Whitehall, London