If you are teaching World War I with American History, this is the resource for you! My other U.S. history units have been popular for years, and this one was requested. Here you go! It took two years to research, find credible and primary sources, and assemble this comprehensive unit with a chronological timeline. For each informational text passage, there is a reading comprehension activity. Check out the people, events, battles, and various language arts skills covered in this unit!
DIGITAL VERSION (GOOGLE AND POWERPOINT) IS ALSO INCLUDED!
COVER PAGE: If you make the passages or the activities into booklets, there is a cover page to use.
TIMELINE CHARTS: 6 pages
TEXT PASSAGES: 55 passages
- Causes of World War I
- The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- The Great War Begins
- Germany Invades Belgium
- First Battle of Marne
- Trench Warfare
- First Battle of Ypres Begins
- In Flanders Fields
- The Ottoman Empire Officially Entered the War
- Zeppelin Raids Begin in Great Britain
- Germany Declares Unrestricted Warfare
- The Second Battle of Ypres
- Anzac
- Sinking of Lusitania
- Italy Declares War and Enters World War I
- The Mesopotamian Campaign
- The Battle of Verdun
- The Battle of Somme
- Biography of Field Marshal Douglas Haig
- The Skyes-Picot Agreement
- The Battle of Jutland
- The Great Arab Revolt
- The United States Severs All Diplomatic Ties With Germany
- Zimmermann Telegram Received by America
- Woodrow Wilson
- America Declares War on Germany
- The Selective Service Act
- Women in World War I
- Animals in World War I
- The Lost Battalion and Cher Ami
- Sergeant Stubby
- The Espionage Act of 1917
- The Hello Girls
- Christmas Truce of 1914
- The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)
- General John Pershing
- The Battle of Cantigny
- The Assassination of Czar Nicholas II and His Family
- The Bolsheviks
- Vladimir Lenin
- Aisne-marne Offensive
- The Battle of Saint-Mihiel
- Treaty of Brest-litovsk
- The Battle of Vittorio Veneto
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Balfour Declaration
- Key Players in War and Peace
- Germany Signs The Armistice
- The Allied Occupation of Germany
- The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
- The Creation of the League Of Nations
- Other Treaties That Ended World War I
- Prime Minister Herbert Asquith
- Prime Minister David Lloyd George
- French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau
ACTIVITIES: Each passage has a comprehension activity with a variety of language arts skills:
- cause and effect
- text evidence
- opinion writing
- compare and contrast
- primary sources analysis
- paragraph writing
- essay writing
- Fill in the blank
- 5 W’s and 1 H
- poetry analysis
- informative writing (newspaper article)
- explanation
- vocabulary
- text dependent analysis
- pros and cons
- description
- connection web
- positives vs. negatives
- true or false
- letter writing
- excerpt analysis
- acrostic poem
- main idea and details
- fact listing
- trading card project
- imaginary interview
- benefits and drawbacks
- understanding actions, motivations, and emotions
- timeline
- word scramble
- figurative language
- identify and explain
- short-term vs. long-term effects
- sequence (chronological order)
- background knowledge
- inference
- Venn diagram
WEEKLY PLAN: Teach in the order of the unit. The plan is set up to spend six weeks if you use every passage and comprehension activity.
STUDY GUIDE: 2 pages
ASSESSMENT: 25 multiple-choice questions and five open-ended questions
ANSWER KEYS FOR ALL ACTIVITIES, TIMELINES, AND ASSESSMENT
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