Y9: 3-2. Marking & Feedback

Year 9A & Year 9B

Today you are going to mark a few tasks and receive feedback for teacher assessed tasks…

Follow the instructions step by step:

1.

Crossword on p.70

2.

Complete the “mood-o-metre” (on p.42) to show how you feel about the topic on “The Consequences of WW1” …! (Feel free to also make any other relevant comments about this topic.)

3.

Revolution in Germany, p.60

4.

Look at your answers to the above task and see how well you performed in the task. Then compare your answers to the suggested answers:

5.

Look at you answers to the above task and see how well you performed in the task. Then compare your answers with the suggested answers:

6.

Task 1 – pages 42-43

REMEMBER:

Always keep in mind that sources may be unreliable or flawed.

Always consider: “Can I trust this source?”

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Task 2 – pages 44-45

REMEMBER:

Always give evidence from the source, in the form of a short quote.

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FEEDBACK:

Well done Year 9!! Some excellent projects were submitted! You can access your grades and also individual feedback on Schoology. Here are the top video, top poem and top essay, with some feedback as to why they were considered “top”!

• Excellent attempt to tell the story of McBride!
• Very thoughtful & careful selection of relevant images.
• Great editing – a smooth production.
• A lot of thought went into the selection of images, showing good understanding.
• Well done!

Project: Video. (4:47 minutes long)

• Well written poem!
• Effective use of rhythmic pattern.
• Shows understanding of the individual’s experience fighting in WW1.
• Imaginative, with dramatic build-up.
• Reveals sadness & harshness of war.
• Shows futility of WW1.
• Well done!

The solider

The solider, taken from home
The solider, taken for his life away to fight
The soldier, still only young,made instantly into a man
The solider, now a war machine not just a young boy that he once was
The solider, that could be wounded by war must keep on fighting until the end
The soldier, trying to survive in the name of his country and life
The soldier, not trying to get caught, crippled in his thoughts
The soldier, tortured by his own mind caring for life but made into a cold blooded murderer
The solider, legs so tired with pain,but kept on running
The solider, day after day,week after week,month after month never seeing the end
The soldier, not knowing where the light at the end of the tunnel will be or will ever be
The soldier, think of home while sleeping on the dirt next his wounded friends beside him
The solider, hearing everyday screams, shouts, moans, explosions and shots, whilst covering his ears trying to escape the pain
The solider, surrounded by thousands,felling totally alone
The solider, his fingers now in pain,his feet now in pain,his life fading away,the cold eating away at his soul
The soldier, his heart bleeding with his compassion for the job he has to do
The soldier, whose eyes are sore from all the obscenities,had to keep looking
The solider, he thinks stalemate,just go away and lets just give up
The soldier, moved to the front line getting deeper and deeper into the fire knowing the end is near
The soldier, By now his ears burning with noise of death and destroction
The soldier, getting called to push out and attack running screaming like a raged animal
The soldier, Shot…
The soldier, on the ground everything buzzing and thinking of home,filling his mind
The soldier, another casualty… another death… and for what?
The soldier, the fight is over,his life is over,the battle is over,who has won this time??
leave him to die….

• Good introduction making explicit reference to the length of the war.
• Well written essay-body that mentions clear reasons and explain them, each in a clear paragraph. All relevant reasons were mentioned and explained.
• Good conclusion that answers the question in short and also points out the most important reason.
• Essay writing advice was perfectly followed, resulting in a great answer! Well done!

Why did WW1 last so long?

WW1 started in July 1914, when a serbian gunman murdered the heir of the Austo-hungarian throne (Archduke Franz Ferdinand). Most people thought war would be over in months, but because of different reasons, it became a long war, which did not end until November 1918. When the USA joined, Germany ended up surrendering to the Allies and signed an armistice. The peace terms were signed in June 1919 with The Treaty of Versailles.

WW1 lasted so long for many reasons. One of them was because war plans failed. In 1914, Germany’s plan was to defeat France in six weeks, by invading at high speed through Belgium. Then the German army would be taken east, to fight Russia. This was called the schlieffen plan. The schlieffen plan failed. The Belgian army, helped by a British Expeditionary Force(BEF), put up a strong defence which slowed the German advance. By the time they were ready to attack Paris, a million French and British troops stood in their way in the River Marne, they halted the German advance.

Also another factor that made war last longer was that stalemate developed on the western-front and on the eastern-front. As stalemate developed, both armies tried to outflank each other. The army that did this would then be able to attack the enemy army from behind. Both armies marched north, hoping to outflank each other before they reached the channel. Neither side succeeded. All they could do now was dig trenches to stop the other from advancing. The war plans also failed in eastern Europe. A Russian attack on Germany was halted in two major battles. A massive Austrian attack on Russia was turned back. So the Germans, Austrians and Russians could only dig trenches to stop the enemy from advancing.

Furthermore, in 1915 the Allies Attempted to break stalemate on the western front by attacking Turkey. A large army, mainly from Austria, New Zealand and France invaded Gallipoli, in Turkey. But the Turks were waiting for them. Both sides dug trenches to stop the other from advancing, so a stalemate resulted. It lasted until the allies withdrew at the end of 1915.

The Allies also failed on the Somme, in 1916. The Allied generals pinned their hopes on making massive attacks on the German trenches. The biggest attack took place in 1916 along the river Somme in France. The Germans found out, and they put up extra barbed wire and they dug underground shelters. The Allies bombarded the German trenches for 5 days. The aim was to destroy German trenches. But when the bombardment started, the Germans got into their deep shelters. The bombardment failed to destroy the barbed wire. When the bombardment was over, 200,000 British troops advanced towards the German trenches, thinking they had been destroyed. As they advanced, the Germans came out of their shelters bringing machine guns with them. The British were cut down by machine-gun fire. Thousands were trapped in barbed wire. By the end of the battle the British and French had lost 620,000 men, and had advanced only 15 km at the furthest point.

Another factor was that there was also stalemate in the war at sea. Britain and Germany had the largest and most powerful navies of the world, but Britain did not want to risk losing it because it needed it to protect its empires, supply Britain with food as it is an island, and keep a constant supply of materials. Germany’s navy was virtually trapped in its ports because of minefields in the channel and the North Sea.

Moreover, another war plan failed, and that was that German U-boats failed to starve Britain into surrender. In February 1915 German submarines (U-boats) began sinking ships in the seas around Britain. Their aim was to starve Britain into surrender. To combat the U-boats, the British laid huge minefields in the Channel and the North sea. So German minesweepers came out to clear them away. Gradually the Germans gained the upper hand. Defeat was avoided by the British when they started using a convoy system. Merchant ships sailed in large groups protected by submarine-destroyer ships of the Royal Navy. The number of sinkings dropped to one in a hundred.

Consequently, the war lasted so long due to many factors. The most important one was that the Schlieffen plan failed, because if it had worked out correctly, the central powers would have won the war very quickly, probably within a few months.

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