Good Afternoon!!!

1. NVC

2. Finish Soldier Poetry

3. Battle of the Somme: Trench Warfare in Action

Essential Question: Who won the first day of the Battle of the Somme?Homework: WWI Project DUE April 2/3

Soldier Poetry Warm-Up

• How did the attitudes of soldiers fighting in WWI change between 1914 and 1915? – Be sure to address the two poems we read on

Tuesday!

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=d7MuMnss4Rw

Transition…

• What were some of the dangers soldiers encountered in trench warfare? List as many as you can!

Battle of the Somme• 1916 Britain and France

plan to break the stalemate– Somme Offensive: plan to

push Germany out of northern France (occupied since 1914)

• Battle of the Somme: begins July 1, 1916 and lasts four months– 1.2 million soldiers dead– Britain and France win back

6 miles of land

Significance of the Somme• A Turning Point?

– German war effort greatly weakened

• One of bloodiest battles in human history– machine guns, artillery,

landmines, gas, and first ever usage of tanks

– “Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.” —Friedrich Steinbrecher

Central Historical Question

Who won the first day of the Battle of the Somme?

Day One Casualties:

• 8, 000 German• 7, 000 French• 57,470 British