Good Afternoon!!

1. NVC

2. Intro to Trench Warfare

3. Soldier Poetry

Essential Question: How did the attitudes of soldiers fighting in WWI change during the course of the war? Homework: WWI Project DUE April 2/3

Trench Warfare• Schlieffen Plan: German

plan to avoid fighting a Two-Front War

• Plan Fails– Stalemate ensues– Late 1914, the first

trenches are dug– Trench Warfare: soldiers

fight each other from fortified tunnels dug in the ground

Cannot even see your enemy

Surrounded by the dead

Poison Gas

“No Man’s Land”: The space between trenches

Land Mines Barbed Wire

Mud!

Trench Foot

Soldier Poetry

• “How do you fight?

• “In Flanders Fields”– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6BlOkpdkg8

&feature=related• “Dulce et Decorum est”– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy47aUhLsxc