I have to admit to feeling a bit surprised. I thought, battles of the war, how complicated could it be. BOY, was I wrong. Led to a rather fierce discussion between the lad and I about how I could be so wrong! But hey, we worked it through and have decided to divide this section into part.
Battles of the Western front, and the eastern front. Then battles of Africa. We’ll tackle sea battles and air battles. But last week and this week we are just going for the general approach.. just getting a bit of an overview of the battles of World War 1.
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Movies Watched
To that end, we watched a few different movies. Flyboys. and The Red Baron. We tried watching The Trench (don’t recommend it). We have plans to watch Warhorse documentary and War Horse but so far we can’t get a stream that works.
Books Read
The lad read through these books below, just select pages that talked about battles of the war in generic terms, or as a broad overview.
The goal is to have him find a battle he wants to research from a Canadian point of view, but so far none of them are grabbing his attention.
We also read through a book called Vimy Oaks because I was just intensely curious. It took us a couple of nights to read through. Thoroughly enjoyed this book. We found it fascinating that the oaks from France eventually found a way back after all the destruction.
Videos Watched
Would we be us if we didn’t watch some videos as well?
Watching how the line moved so much at first and then just kind of stalled, reminded us of how HARD and kinda pointless trench warfare would have seemed to the men involved.
Resources Used
We used a variety of resources for this unit study. These include writing prompts from Bonnie Rose. Heather LeBlanc’s Major Battles and Events of WW1 and Military Geography from TOS. We used a timeline from someone but I can’t find a link to it… Might have been a free unit we picked up somewhere, I can’t truly recall.
Other posts about world war one
- Belgium
- Animals in World War One
- Soldiers in Training
- Assassination
- Pre_war Alliances
- War Starts
- Trench Warfare.
- Trench Foot Experiment.
I have been enjoying this series – as I love studying World War I. I blame my history professor from my Origins of WWI course in college. My teen and I will be studying WWI in a week or so.
I am so glad you are enjoying the series. I hope you are picking up new tidbits along the way too. 🙂
My son also enjoys learning about World War I 🙂
it’s quite interesting, I thought I knew about the war until I started to learn about it. 🙂
Lots of good items to add to the study. Looks like he is learning quite a bit.
i hope he is… I haven’t been on top of things as much as I should be.
I always LOVE reading youor blog!
You have given us so many great things to do this month alone 🙂
THANK YOU!
aw, thanks! 🙂
My interest in history doesn’t extend to the World Wars, but there’s so much to learn! I think it’s great that your son is leading the way on what he wants to know and doing the research.
we are certainly trying. 🙂