McDougal Littell, 
Modern World History
Chapters 13/14: 
Pages  363-366, 
368-377, 383-385, 
391-394

Brooke, Rupert, 
The Soldier

Owen, Wilfred, 
Dulce et Decorum Est

Remarque, Eric, 
All Quiet on the Western 
Front

Speeches and writings of Georges 
Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson

The Treaty of Versailles

The Zimmermann Note

The Great War:  1918,
PBS Video, 1989

882305
The End of the Old Order,
1900-1929
(1988 - 26 minutes)

882302
Making of Russia 
(1988 - 26 minutes)

883072
Overview of World War I 
(1990 - 30 minutes)

The Politics of
Peacemaking 
(Coronet/MTI, 1983)

20th century documents: 
www.yale.edu/lawweb/
avalon/20th.htm

Russian History 
www.departments.bucknell.
edu/russian/history.html

Russian Revolution Lecture 
www.pagesz.net/~stevek/
europe/lecture5.html

Russian Revolution Lecture 
www.pagesz.net/~stevek/
europe/lecture6.html

Russian Revolution Lecture 
www.pagesz.net/~stevek/
europe/lecture7.html

Russian Revolution Sites 
www.pagesz.net/~stevek/
europe/rusrev-links.html

SCORE Activity end of WWI 
www.score.rims.k12.
ca.us/activity/paris_peace
_conference/

Trenches on the Web (WWI) 
www.worldwar1.com/

World War I Document Archives 
www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

War1914-1945 www.campus.northpark.edu/
history/WebChron/World/
WorldWars.html

AT  63, 64
CT  29, 65, 66
GT  29

WW I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/
~rdh/wwi/index.html*
Description: This site links you to most WW I document, treaty and personal memoir sites.
Comments: A must when study/teach about World War I. The site is under construction and new documents and photographs are added often. Try again if you can't find what you want the first time.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

America in World War I
http://www.adventure.com/
library/encyclopedia/
america/ww1.html*
Description: A narrative history of how the USA got involved in WW I.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Canada in the First World War and the Road to Vimy Ridge
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/
historical/firstwar/
vimy.htm*
Description: The name Vimy Ridge has lived in the history of Canada and in the hearts and minds of Canadians for 75 years. It is part of the very fabric of our nationhood, for, at Vimy, our soldiers brought both pride and unity to the Canada of their day. 
Comments: Well done narrative.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Eyewitness on World War I 
http://www.ibiscom.
com/w1frm.htm*
Description: Designed by Ibis Communications, this is one of their pages dedicated to learning aobut history from the people who witnessed it. This page has eyewitness accounts of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, a German U-Boat attack, and the death of an American flying ace.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

First Division Museum at Cantigny
http://www.xnet.com/
~fdmuseum/*
Description: The First Division Museum at Cantigny is dedicated to the history of the Big Red One, the famed 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Flashback: The Balkan Crisis
http://www.theAtlantic.com
/atlantic/atlweb/flashbks/
balkans/balk.htm*
Description: A comparison between the WW I Balkan crisis and the modern day problems.
Resource Type: Compilation of Links
Graphics Content: High
 

Great War in the Air
http://www.nasm.edu/
GALLERIES/GAL206/
gal206.html*
Description: This exhibit places aircraft and air power in proper perspective and examines the contradictions between the myths and realities of World War I combat. The aircraft exhibited here took to the skies during the Great War in the air -- World War I.
Resource Type: Photos or Pictures
Graphics Content: High
 

Lost Poets of the Great War
http://www.emory.edu/
ENGLISH/LostPoets
/index.html*
Description: This a hypertext document on the writings of protest in poetry of WWI. John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Alan Seeger are a few included. This is good way to show the other side of the story.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Mary Riter Hamilton: No Man's Land - Paintings of WW I
http://www.umanitoba.ca/
cm/vol2/no4/hamilton.html*
Description: Mary Riter Hamilton undertook a "special mission" for the War Amputations Club of British Columbia. Her task was to provide paintings of the battlefields of France and Belgium for publication in a veterans' magazine, "The Gold Stripe". 
Comments: Presents a different view of the war.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Murder of the Romanovs
http://www.pallasweb.
com/palace/murder.html*
Description: This is an excerpt from "Elizabeth and Alexandra" by Anthony Lambton. It gives a description of what happened in July 1918 when the Bolsheviks killed the last czar of Russia and many others of the royal family. It includes an autopsy report to set to rest the idea that some of the Romanov's survived.
Comments: Reads like a primary source.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: Low

Paired Learning Assignment:

Students will be assigned to groups of two in order to study World War I in depth.  Each pair will be assigned a different topic relating to WWI to research and present to the class:  causes and issues, leaders and personalities, allies and opponents, weaponry, propaganda, theatres of battle, genocide and human rights, costs and aftermath of the war, U.S. entrance into the war, problems of keeping the peace. Students will prepare formal oral presentations for the class.

Students will be assessed on the quality of the information presented to the class in the oral presentation.  They will also be assessed on the quality of the presentation itself.  Students will submit a one-page handout for class distribution which summarizes the major findings in their research.  These documents will be graded for accuracy and detail.

The July Crisis: Can You Stop the Great War?
Viewable on the CTAP 
1999 CDROM (Via this link)
The date is June 28, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand , heir to the Autro-Hungarian Empire, has just been assassinated by a Serbian nationaist named Gravrilo Princep. The Austrian Government has sent the government of Serbia an ultimatum demanding things with which that country does not feel it can comply. Europe is poised on the brink of war. As a member of the diplomatic team, can you stop this terrible conflict from becoming the first worldwide war?
Author: Madeline Antilla
 

The Zimmermann Telegram
http://www.nara.gov/
education/teaching/
zimmermann/zimmerma.html*
Students develop a U.S. response to submarine warfare during the early years of World War I following the decipher of the Zimmerman Telegram. This activity uses the original coded and uncoded primary source document from the National Archives.
Author: National Archives

Students will be assessed on the quality of the information presented to the class in the oral presentation.  They will also be assessed on the quality of the presentation itself.  Students will submit a one-page handout for class distribution which summarizes the major findings in their research.  These documents will be graded for accuracy and detail.

Maps will be graded on the following:  accuracy, readability, legend, and impact.