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Creative Historians Project Handouts and Resources
Project Handouts
- Project Overview: Gives an overview of the project, and explains the challenge extension options for the project.
- Story Brainstorm: Guides you through a structured brainstorm for your short fiction piece.
- Research Notes Format: Gives you everything you need to know about what your research notes should contain for this project.
- Historical Fiction Critique: Gives instructions for a multi-stage critique of stories, using the key principles of plot, character, historical integration, show don't tell, and sentence craft.
- Literary Techniques: For use during the Challenge Extension portion of the project.
Project Resources
Below is a list of websites that might be helpful as you research your WWI elements and events. I also encourage you to use the links at the bottom of Wikipedia pages about your topics to find sources!
- World War One Document Archive: This is a treasure trove of resources. It's organized into categories that include official documents and treaties, images, diaries and memoirs, and medical information about WWI. A great place to find primary sources.
- First World War: Again, a huge compendium of resources. In the left column you'll find a helpful index with categories including battlefield tours, source documents (a great place for primary sources!), weaponry, maps, photographs, video and audio, and memoirs and diaries.
- BBC World War One: Has many resources, including secondary analysis by historians, diaries and memoirs, and debates and controversies of WWI. A great place to find primary sources about particular battles.
- PBS World War One: Has solid resources in a well-organized format. Particularly helpful when researching major battles and trench warfare. Lots of good secondary analysis by historians, and some primary sources.
- First World War Teachers: Scroll down for links to primary sources, including poetry of WWI and photographs.
- First World War Digital Archive: Starts by focusing on poetry, but if you dig a bit, there are other resources here, including letters and other types of writing.
- Trenches on the Web: This site is somewhat confusing to navigate, but there is a ton of information here, including a big collection of WWI art and musical recordings. Scroll down slightly to find the "Site-at-a-Glance" diagram. This is the easiest way to find what you want here.
- History Learning Site: Another big collection of links and information. This will take you down a rabbit hole unless you know what you are looking for!
"All Quiet on the Western Front" Activities and Handouts
- AQotWF Choice Activities
- Dialectic Response
- Chapter Timeline and Illustrated Journal
- Discussion Group Guidelines
- Difficulty/Curiosity Journal
- Round Characters
- Literary Technique List
- The Roots of War: Text
- The Roots of War: Instructions
- Found Poem Instructions
Writing Resources: Essays
- Writing Memo: A list of general rules and things to consider to make your writing tighter and more professional.
- Writing Checklist: A checklist that you can use to help you identify and fix some of the most common issues I see with student writing.
- Essay Outline Format: Go here to see the required format for your essay outlines.
- Essay Outline Example: Go here to see Lori's example of an essay outline (please note that I did not fully outline the second and third body paragraphs...you will need to do this!).
- Works Cited: Use the linked website to create your works cited page for your essay. Make sure that you check what the site has auto-filled to make sure it's accurate, and to add any additional information that is necessary.
Writing Resources: Sentence Development
- Setting Up Quotes: This handout explains how to set up quotes in an essay so they are more fully integrated into your writing.
Library of Congress: Veteran Interviews
- Veteran's Project Overview: Provides an overview of the essential questions, main task, and content that will be covered in the project.
- Veteran's Project Checklist: This is your key document for keeping track of your deadlines, due dates, and responsibilities. Also explains what the different roles are for the people in your group.
- Biographical Data Form: This is a form that allows you to enter the the biographical data of your veteran digitally (to avoid messy handwriting). When you click on the link, you'll be taken to the GoogleDoc version. You will need to go to the upper left corner of the page, click on "File", then click on "Download Original." This will give you a word document that you can either copy and paste into an email, or attach to the email.
- Biographical Data Form ONE and TWO FINAL: For the final printed form, you must fill it out in the PDF format, then print.
- Veteran Release Form: A release form your veteran MUST sign before the interview.
- Interviewer Release Form: A release form everyone in your group MUST sign before the interview.
- VHP Interview Guidelines: This handout gives you basic guidelines for your interview, and provides an outline of topics to cover in your interview.
- Video/Audio Log Form: A PDF form that you can fill out digitally, then print. I suggest doing initial recording by hand, then having the communications person compile them into the final form.
Genocide Project Resources
- Research Part 1: Guidelines. Gives you the basic guidelines and assignments for the first stage of research.
- Cornell Notes Example: Shows the rules and guidelines for taking Cornell Notes. If you choose this option, you should do a new set of notes for each source you look at.
- Cornell Notes Template: A Word template that is already set up in the Cornell Notes format. Download it and use it!
- Research Outline Example: Gives you an example of what an A+ research outline should look like.
- Yale Genocide Studies Program: Has great information about some of the genocides you are studying. Click on your genocide on the left, then look to the right hand column for articles and other resources.
- Peace Pledge Union: A UK organization that provides concise overviews of many genocides.
- United to End Genocide: A timeline of modern genocides with brief overviews of each.
- History Place: Has links to pages about most of the genocides you are studying. Again, a good place to get an easy to understand overview.
- World Without Genocide: Nicely organized overviews, which also addresses the aftermath of the genocides. Look at the right column to find your genocide (not all are on this site).
