Slide 1: the great war: art, fact, and artifact
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Slide 2: Background
This project is an interdisciplinary, inter-grade experimental classroom designed to enhance and extend student learning about The Great War and how it changed humanity, religion, society, and culture.
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Slide 3: disciplines
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Literature: a world perspective
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We will pursue meaning though British, German, and French War texts, and well as literature from other countries (excluding the United States) and use these vehicles to color the historical record. We will obtain full knowledge of the times, places, and causes of the conflict as it pertains to U.S. policy and participation, and use that information to penetrate the artistic renderings of the War.
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History: an American perspective
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Slide 4: Mission
We seek to pinpoint, through art, fact, and artifact, the propellant forces that hurled peaceloving citizens forward into bellicose vises and moral vices that crushed body and spirit. And through this discovery, we will search the fire in the heart of humanity that, while extinguished in more than nine million souls, smoldered on in the blackened hearts of men; fixing humankind on a modern trajectory of disillusionment.
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Slide 5: devices
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Sacrifice Death Life Irony Paradox
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Slide 6: texts
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Poetry Memoir Fiction Historical Narrative Visual
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Photographic Motion Picture
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Audio
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Slide 7: resources
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The World War I Museum
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Displays Archives
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Union Station Nelson-Atkins Museum* National Archives* President Harry S. Truman Library Winston Churchill Museum*
* Indicates resources being
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Slide 8: attachés
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Cherie Kelly
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National World War I Museum Raphael Hotel
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Tim Brice
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Slide 9: experience
In order to frame the experience, we plan to: • Break students into fire-teams of 3 persons. Fire-teams must stay together at all times and share a suite at the Raphael. Fire-teams can be aggregated into a larger group, such as a squad or a platoon. • Assign each student the identity of a participant in the War, and give each copies of letters from this individual. At the end of the trip, each Due diligence is still being student will learn whether his War
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Slide 10: Missions
Thus far, ideas for missions include: • Blog entries • Flash essays • Photo contest • Prompt-driven journaling • Draft application • Design-a-poster • Write a speech for peace
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Slide 11: itinerary
• Departure: Kirkwood Amtrak* gives students the general flavor of travel for soldiers and citizens of that era • Accommodations: Raphael Hotel, circa 1928 • Events: Custom tours, readings, missions, movies, discussions, rare the great war: *A school bus will follow 12/27/11 documents, writing, camaraderie art, fact, and artifact
Slide 12: next
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Align texts and focus for trip
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Due Monday, January 3, 2012 Due Friday, January 6, 2012 Due Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Due Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Firm up list of available resources
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Finalize budget
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Construct missions
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Slide 13: To be continued . . .
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