This teaching unit is designed to supplement and enliven your students' study of World War I by engaging them in the process by which history is written.
World War I: The Home Front includes a booklet containing a teachers guide, a set of reproductions of original documents, and a CD-ROM containing exercise worksheets and digital images of original documents. The unit is made up of five exercises that relate to life on the home front. Each exercise uses reproductions of documents from the National Archives and suggests classroom activities based on these documents. The documents include letters, photographs, petitions, posters, and other documents. Students practice the historian's skills as they complete exercises using these documents to gather information, identify points of view, evaluate evidence, form hypotheses, and draw conclusions.
Other units comprising the Teaching With Documents series are:
The Constitution: Evolution of a Government
The Bill of Rights: Evolution of Personal Liberties
The United States Expands West: 1785-1842
Westward Expansion: 1842-1912
The Civil War: Soldiers and Civilians
The Progressive Years: 1898-1917
The 1920's
The Great Depression and The New Deal
World War II: The Home Front
The United States At War: 1944
The Truman Years: 1945-1953
Peace and Prosperity: 1953-1961
