World History · Week 23 · World War I and Its Aftermath
A Lost Generation Makes Art
Students explore how writers and artists after the war expressed grief and disillusionment and use a quick sketch or poem to name a feeling of their own.
- Students will
- Students explain how World War I influenced literature, art, and intellectual life in the West and analyze how artists expressed grief and disillusionment.
- SEL skill
- Name your feelings through a short creative response
- What it looks like
- Students recognize and name their own feelings through a short creative response.
- Content focus
- Art and literature after the Great War
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they shape what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 10.6.4: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.6, item 4)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HI3 Interpret past events in the context in which they unfolded rather than solely by present day norms and values. (Historical Interpretation)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.5.9-12 Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people's perspectives.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as used in a text, including political, social, or economic vocabulary.
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More self-awareness activities for World History
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- Ideas That Start Revolutions Self-awarenessStudents connect the ideas of Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Jefferson, and Bolívar to the revolutions they inspired and name the beliefs that drive their own choices.
- Why Empires Expanded Self-awarenessStudents analyze how markets, resources, national rivalry, and beliefs of superiority drove the new imperialism and examine assumptions about who is better than whom.
- Mapping Colonial Rule Self-awarenessStudents study maps of Africa and Asia before and after colonial rule and name the feelings that arise when borders are drawn by outsiders.
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