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WWI Guide Instructions

The document provides instructions for a U.S. History homework assignment on World War I. Students are asked to create an academic guide summarizing the 17 key terms, people, events, and ideas related to WWI. The guide must include at least 3 sentences of information for each item, plus an informative graphic. Acceptable formats include an annotated timeline, PowerPoint, booklet, poster, or other creative options. Students will be quizzed and tested on the material after Thanksgiving.

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WWI Guide Instructions

The document provides instructions for a U.S. History homework assignment on World War I. Students are asked to create an academic guide summarizing the 17 key terms, people, events, and ideas related to WWI. The guide must include at least 3 sentences of information for each item, plus an informative graphic. Acceptable formats include an annotated timeline, PowerPoint, booklet, poster, or other creative options. Students will be quizzed and tested on the material after Thanksgiving.

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U.S.

History Thanksgiving Homework: Quick Guide to WWI


Background: Last year in world history, you most likely spent a lot of time on WWI. This year in U.S. history, well talk quite a bit
about life in America during the war, but we will not spend a ton of time on the actual war itself. To help you review the most important aspects of WWI, your mission is to create some kind of academic guide to the basics about WWI. It doesnt have to be anything too extensive; you just have to ensure that you cover the basics of the key terms, people, events and ideas listed in the box below.

One other important bit of information: When you return from Thanksgiving, youll have a quiz on this information. I will let
you use whatever you create as your guide to WWI on this quiz AND on the chapter test, so do a good job on this, for the love of all that is sacred to you!

These are the key terms, people, events, etc. that need to be in your guide. The numbers in parenthesis after each term refer to the page in your textbook that contains the relevant information.
People: 1. Archduke Francis Ferdinand (416) 2. Kaiser Wilhelm (418) 3. Vladimir Lenin (423 Causes of War: 4. U-boats (421) 5. Lusitania (421) 6. Zimmerman Note (422-423) The War in Europe: 7. American Expeditionary Force (425) 8. doughboys (426) 9. trench warfare (causes and effects) 10. Russian Revolution and Lenin (427-428) 11. Armistice (428-429) 12. The Wars Toll (429) Outcomes: 13. Fourteen Points Speech (434) 14. Self-Determination (434) 15. League of Nations (including why it failed) (435-436) 16. Treaty of Versailles (436) 17. Winners & Losers (436-437)

Format
You can choose any of the following formats for your guide: 1. Annotated Timeline (like the Civil War timeline), where you explain a bit about each of the key terms 2. PowerPoint presentation 3. Booklet or pamphlet 4. Poster 5. Cheat Sheet (some kind of chart or study guide where you explain the basics of each key term) 6. Prezi presentation (a free online presentation generator) 7. Any other format you can think of (a comic strip, podcast, video presentation, graphic novel, etc.).

Other Important Instructions


1. Each key term/person/etc. must have the equivalent of three sentences of information. This should include a definition of what the term is about, AND some information on the significance of each term. You can use full sentences and/or bullet points. Each entry needs to have some kind of informative graphic. This can be from the internet and/or magazines and/or handdrawn. PUT THE INFORMATION IN YOUR OWN WORDS. If you are caught copying directly from the book or anything else, youll get a 0 on the assignment. I would like to use the best guides to give to my future students as basic guides to WWI. So, if you produce a guide that is worthy of giving to other students, I shall give you some extra credit.

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THIS IS DUE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. THIS IS WORTH 100 POINTS: 85 points for the information: o 5 points for each of the 17 key terms: 3 points for the definition and significance 2 points for the graphic 15 points for overall neatness, creativity, etc.

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