THERES NO PLACE LIKE HOME

The Home Front during the Great War

Introduction:
As soldiers were fighting for their lives overseas, there were many events and incidents happening back on
home soil. These events included conscription, revolution, working hours, women in the workforce,
bombings, training, and notably the Halifax explosion in Canada.

Historical Thinking Concepts

Cause and Consequence
Continuity and Change
Historical Significance

Outcome
IN 20.3 - Analyze the interplay among the social, economic, political and cultural domains within a society and
describe how changes within one of the domains impact the others.

Task:
You will research an issue that occurred in YOUR country on home soil during World War I. Create a poster,
infographic, banner or other visual product (real or digital) to explain the issue. This issue could be positive or negative,
economic or political, deadly or peaceful. A list of ideas is located at the end of the assignment page.

Your product will need to answer the following essential questions:

Background Content:
o Issue name; date
o Description of the event
Critical Thinking
o Cause and consequence of issue
o What did this issue change? Or did it result in any change? (continuity and change)
o Historical Significance of the issue
o Did this domestic issue take precedence over involvement in the war? If so, why? If not,
should it have? Why or why not?

Other requirements:

Pictures
Formal Bibliography done in Chicago Style with at least 2 sources
Assessment
5 Wow! 4 Yes and 3 - Yes 2 Almost 1 - Beginning
Background Event is fully Event is fully Event is fully Some event Very little
Content explained with explained with explained. details are background of
a detailed a vivid and missing. the event is
description detailed given.
and/or direct description.
quotes or
situational
examples.
Critical Thinking All critical All critical All critical Some You did not
thinking thinking thinking information is answer the
questions are questions are questions are missing. critical thinking
X2 answered answered answered. questions fully.
insightfully insightfully Remember to
with examples with examples. use examples
and/or direct to explain your
quotes. You understanding.
are able to
related this
past issue to
other events in
history or the
present.
Product Product is Product is Product is neat Product has Product has
exceptionally exceptionally and organized. many typos or many typos or
neat and neat and There are few errors. errors. A lack
organized. organized. typos or errors. of neatness and
There are no There are few organization
typos or errors. or no has resulted in
Product is typos/errors. a poor product.
visually
pleasing and
extra effort is
evident.
Bibliography More than 2 2 sources are 2 sources are 2 or 1 source(s) 1 source used.
sources are used. No used. Few used. Proper Proper citation
used. No errors errors in errors in citation not not used.
in citation. citation. citation used.

Total: /25
Ideas by Country:

Austria-Hungary Canada France Germany

Censorship and Conscription War damages Women in the
propaganda Women in the End of the Press workforce
Starvation (food workforce Civilian morale Resource
shortages) Halifax explosion and support for shortages turnip
Ethnic minorities Censorship and the war winter
Political instability Propaganda Political revolution
Ukrainian
Internment camps
(enemy aliens)
Great Britain Italy Ottoman Empire Russia
Resource scarcity Rise of Fascism Armenian Revolution
Easter Rebellion Socialists vs. Genocide Conscription
Zeppelin nationalists Turkish revival
bombings Work force and
Work force inflation
Serbia
Enemy occupation
Uprising in 1917

**You are not restricted to this list. You may use your own issue/event but it must occur between 1913-1919
and it must have occurred in your country**