Chapter 21 World War 1: Enhancing Learning

Tenth Link of Reference

2011-01-24T10:23:00.000-08:00

Like the PBS link, History.com describes the war in such detail just like on TV, except I would recommend this after you read the book just to supplement your understanding about the Chapter. This gives you the full understanding of the War and who the major people were involved. The one aspect that I liked about this website is that there are videos for each section so if you don't understand that one part, you can watch it, and visual learning is very effective.

Fish Gadget:
If you have recently been on Edmodo, then you would have to have looked at the polls. There are more Progressivists than the Industrialists. The black fish represent the industrialists, because they were the "Dark Side" of the story, who meant for themselves at others cost. I based this off the movie series Star Wars, because this movie would definitely represent the time. There are always two Siths, or dark lords, who want the power of the galaxy and beyond. They have the most power to take over, but they are outnumbered by the Jedi, where there are over hundreds of them. Throughout the movie, Darth Sideous finds a Jedi that is powerful and is on the trail of evil. This Jedi turns against them to join the Sith Lord, where they out power the Jedi, wiping out all but two. They have the ultimate control. The blue fish represent the Jedi, who are fighting for fairness throughout the galaxy to stop the evil that has been passed. Obviously, the blue fish represent the progressivists.

German Patch

Ninth Link of Reference

2011-01-24T10:02:00.000-08:00

One aspect that made me interested in this link is that there were many different ways to learn about this event. They show how the war sparked, the outcome of the war, and also shows the different sides of the war. This is the first website that I saw that shows ST and NT views, and the only site with a combination of the two learning styles and the views of the soldiers. This site has a good feel to it when you read about the war.

Eighth Video Reference

2011-01-24T09:47:00.000-08:00

This video explains how the Great War started. It is easier to see how it started than to read how it started, because the book doesn't explain that very well. Because it doesn't go into great detail when the book describes the World War One. That is the main reason why I chose this clip. Though it is a long video, it gives you a through understanding about how the War of all Wars started.

Seventh Video Reference

2011-01-24T09:07:00.000-08:00

A very morbid clip, but the music and the clips could not express the emotions of the chemical use in World War One, and it couldn't show how much pain it caused. This clip shows the use of chemical weapons in the War and explain why it was banned after the effects were shown. The book explains the use very vaguely, but the video would shows the horrors of chemicals weapons. Though it was a little detail that wasn't really-well it was needed- in the section, this shows where most of the death came from, and what hell the soldiers must have gone through during and after the war with the chemical effects. It better to die with that type of pain that you would have than to live and feel it.

Sixth Video Reference

2011-01-24T08:56:00.000-08:00

This video is a "rare video" that was taken during the First World War. One element that I admired in the video is that they showed how the first World War began at the very beginning. When Ferdinand was assassinated, they showed the soldiers from each country getting ready for war.This video captures what text cannot, and that is how the soldiers had to live during the 4 1/4 years of being in war. They had to survive in very cold condition- even I cannot capture that image. This is something that the video captures and what that means is that it expresses the pain that cannot be expressed in words, no matter how you put it. If you take out the music for most of these videos, it is easy to understand.

Fifth Link of Reference

2011-01-24T08:35:00.000-08:00

This is Charles Hamilton Sorley
He is a poet that studied World War One

This is Siegfried Sassoon
an English Poet and a Soldier

The one thing that struck me about this link was that instead of the war being told in a fact sort of way, it was being told and quoted from real people. The title would have the quote, and most of the people who wrote those quotes were poets from the World War One. This I thought was amazing, because I didn't think anybody would do this; at first I thought that they were just random people quoting those terms, but after I researched them, I thought that it was pretty fascinating. This source basically tells the story of World War One from two different sides of the War.

Fourth Link of Reference

2011-01-24T08:23:00.000-08:00

He was the first War Dog of the United States and was
treated like a human in the war

This next page is a pretty cool page actually. This website doesn't really describe all the major or needed events, but it shows the hardships that the people of that time had to go through, whether they were part of the war or not. This link shows what each country had to go though and what the outcome of the conflict was. For some, it was influenza, others it was trying to survive for another day. This truly shows the dark sides of the war, and shows some cool useless facts. One fact like this is that they used some animals in World War one, such as a mutt named "Stubby". He was under the command of General Pershing and his job was to sniff out wounded soldiers and to save his soldiers from surprise gas attacks.

Third Link of Reference

2011-01-24T07:21:00.001-08:00

This website is a good website; whether you read the book or not. I would recommend this website to anyone, because it sums up the basics and explains the war in detail that is understandable. The book can sometimes be a little hard to understand for me, which is why I have to read it a couple of times in order to do this. This page is a page that is easy to understand and explains some of the countries conflicts in detail, so the rest of the Chapter is easy to get a grasp of.

Second Link of Reference

2011-01-24T07:06:00.000-08:00

This is a sketch of what a U-boat looked like; it was what
the Germans used to sink American Boats.

The second link explains the basics on what World War one was about. It explains the main points of what the war was about, and what sparked the war. It explained what countries were involved and explained why it was such a big war. It explained how the soldiers felt in the war, and gave the opinions of what the many felt like during the war, whether they were part of it or just citizens. The one aspect of this website that I liked was that they explained the different vehicles that were used.

First Link of Reference

2011-01-24T06:33:00.000-08:00

This is really cool because I saw this in
Mr. Kannan's room on the chalkboard.
This may have applied for the war for the German side,
because the other side was gaining much power
in the war, but they would get anywhere,
which is why an armistice was put in effect.

This link is basically a timeline of what happened in World War I. I think that this timeline is a quick and easy read, because it sums up the major events without going into detail. In the book, they explain everything in detail. Though some of the things that are reviewed in the timeline are not exactly relevant or aren't in the book, once again, it doesn't go into extreme detail. One aspect that I thought was really nice was the fact that it lists how long the war was and shows what happened in each part of the year, so you know where the most action was at what part of the year.