1. LO - To understand how the war affected women.
Success Criteria: “I understand how the war affected the everyday lives of women. I know about some of the restrictions on women, how they suffered during the war, their courage and resilience”

2. Modern Posters

3. WW2 Posters Air Raid Wardens Wanted, Cecil Walter Bacon, IWM PST 13848
In an Air Raid... If You Are Out of Doors, artist unknown, IWM PST 13836
London County Council ARP, F Bernard Clarke, IWM PST 8166

4. Activities Activity 1 – Identify unknown words/concepts from posters.
Activity 2- Make a list of imperative verbs.
Activity 3 – Use the posters to think of words to put under the headings – ‘Feel/Hear/Happening’.
Activity 4 - Look at the different features of the posters and write down what message they give you.

5. Women were asked to do many jobs in WW2….
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)
Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF)
Entertainers
Secret Agents
Codebreakers

6. Women’s Timber Corps
Women’s Land Army
Factory Workers
Women’s Voluntary Service

7. Grew their own food
Rationed food and clothes
Looked after evacuees