Standards

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Standards Based Unit World War I
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Primary Standards Social Studies - History
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• Change, Continuity, Causality
• Students employ chronology to understand change
  and/or continuity and cause and effect in
  history.
• Benchmark Student analyze cause and effect
  relationships and multiple causations of change.

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• Historical Empathy
• Students learn to judge the past on its own terms
  and use that knowledge to understand present day
  issues, problems, and decision making.
• Benchmark Students apply knowledge of
  historical periods to assess present day issues.

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Secondary Standards Language Arts
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Reading

• Comprehension Processes
• Students use appropriate strategies within the
  reading processes to construct meaning.
• Benchmark Students use reading strategies
  appropriate to text and purpose.

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Writing

• Composing processes
• Students use writing processes and strategies
  appropriately and as needed to construct meaning
  and communicate effectively.
• Benchmark Evaluate and synthesize information
  from research and integrate information with own
  ideas in text.

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• Rhetoric
• Students use rhetorical devices to craft writing
  appropriate to audience and purpose.
• Benchmark Produce writing that reveals insight
  about people, events, knowledge and experience.

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Oral Communication

• Communication Processes
• Students use strategies within speaking and
  listening to construct and communicate meaning
• Benchmark Develop personal view after
  consideration of a variety of sources and points
  of view.

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• Range
• Students communicate orally using various
  formsinterpersonal, group, and publicfor a
  variety of purposes and situations.
• Benchmark make formal speeches to inform and
  persuade or influence others.

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Educational Technology Research

• Ed Tech as a Research Tool
• Students use technology to locate, evaluate and
  collect information from a variety of sources.
• Benchmark Select and apply information
  technology tools for research, information,
  analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making in
  learning activities that involve issues or
  complex topics.

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Broad Understandings

• Causes of the war included nationalism,
  militarism and entangling alliances.
• Americans initially remained neutral but debated
  whether to intervene in the conflict.
• The U.S. entered the war due to violations of its
  neutrality.
• The U.S. returned to an isolationist foreign
  policy in the post-war years.

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Driving Questions

• What caused WWI to erupt in Europe?
• What caused America to enter the war?
• What was Americas role in the war?
• How did the war affect U.S. foreign policy?

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The Essential Question

• Under what circumstances should the
• United States intervene in a foreign
• conflict?

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Starter Activity

• Free Write
• Jot down everything you already know about
  World War I.

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Sample Responses

• I dont know anything about it. I think we
• fought Germany.
• Hitler vs. Wilson. Fought in Europe, Africa.
• We win.
• Hitler. Mussolini. Concentration camps.
• Assination of Austrian Prince.
• When did World War I start? What started
• WWI? What countries fought in WWI?
• When did WWI end? Who won the war?
• How many people were killed?

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Textbook Reading

• United States History
• by Henry N. Drewry, et al
• Chapter 10 World War I
• Europe in 1914
• A Neutral America
• America at War
• The Aftermath

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Supplemental Reading

• Appeal for Neutrality
• by Woodrow Wilson (1914)
• Speech for Declaration of War
• by Woodrow Wilson (1917)
• Speech Against Declaration of War
• by George W. Norris (1917)

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• The Economic Necessity of War
• (Literary Digest 1912)
• The Horrors of Peace
• (North American Review Sep. 1914)
• The Cruel Outlook for Peace in Europe
• (New York Times May 1915)

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Concept Attainment
Defining Nationalism
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Examples of Nationalism

• Mary feels a sense of loyalty to her country. She
  exalts her nation above all others.
• John feels a sense of devotion to his country. He
  promotes his nations culture and interests above
  those of other nations.

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Non-Examples of Nationalism

• Jane feels no sense of loyalty to any single
  country. She believes all people should be
  citizens of a world community.
• Tom feels no sense of devotion to any single
  country. He believes the cultures and interests
  of all nations should be respected and promoted.

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Student Definitions

• Nationalism Pride in your own country.
• Loyalty to the country that you are a citizen
  of, along with promotion of its culture and
  interest over any other country.

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Causes of U.S. Involvement in WWI
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• Industrial Revolution
• The Rise of Militarism
• Nationalist Sentiment
• Entangling Alliances
• Assassination of Austrias Archduke
• Sinking of the Lusitania
• The Zimmerman Note
• The Abdication of Russias Czar
• Germanys Sub Warfare

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Films

• The Guns of August
• All Quiet on the Western
• Front

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Sample of Student Work

• War is so different than I expected it to be. I
  thought it would be a valiant fight for honor and
  glory. Instead, all I see is bloodshed . . .
  Perhaps there is a man, a soldier like me, on the
  other side who has a love as beautiful as you are
  waiting for him at home. Perhaps after this
  battle he was planning to write her a letter and
  find warmth through her. Perhaps I have killed
  him . . . Cathy Mina

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Political Cartoons

• Ulysses and the Sirens
• What the Hun would have
• done.

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Assessment

• Formative Assessment
• Section Review Questions
• Summative Assessment
• Selected Response Items
• Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks
• Constructed Response
• Essay Discuss the causes of World War
  I
• and its effect on U.S.
  foreign policy.

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Culminating Activity The Macedonia Project

• In 1914, a crisis in the Balkans grew into into
  the First World War. At present there is yet
  another crisis brewing in the region, this time
  in the Balkan nation of Macedonia. Portraying
  members of the National Security Council,
  students are to research the crisis and prepare
  written and oral reports to the President
  recommending for or against U.S. intervention in
  the region.

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Supplemental Readings

• A Different Kind of War
• (Newsweek March 26, 2001)
• Breathing Room in the Balkans
• (Newsweek April2, 2001)

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Web Sites

• http//infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/
• hono28307
• http//search.epnet.com
• http//www.macedonia.com/

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The Product

• A written report containing
• A chronology of historical developments
• An analysis of the current situation
• U.S. options in light of lessons of
  history
• The results of a survey of public opinion
• An oral argument recommending for or
• against U.S. intervention in the crisis