WWI Reflection

 

Unit Overview:

This unit carries on from the unit on Imperialism to understand the causes, outcomes, and significance of WWI. For this unit students took part in extensive reading, note-taking, and discussion leading up to an open-book test.

 

Personal Unit Overview: What did you achieve this unit?

 

What I achieve this unit is that I learned about the situation in each continents. For example, Germany and U.S. had a rough time dealing with their economic problem. I did really well on the test and I am proud of myself.  

Enduring Understandings: How did WWI affect the world?

Countries from around the world were involved in the conflict for the first time. Also, the battle raged not just in the trenches of the Western Front but in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Therefore, it is a big event of the war, Many people died and there were lots of invention to fight with. For example, airplane that drop bomb to kill people on the ground, or poison gas, which was introduced by the Germans and causes blindness or severe blisters, or choking. Furthermore, WWI causes a lot of economic problem, since people lost their jobs and doesn’t have enough money to live.  

Unit Standards:

 

Content:

• Analyze and describe the causes and outcomes of World War I

 

Process:

• Interpret central ideas and provide an accurate summary of sources while demonstrating relationship among ideas

• Uses multiple sources to synthesize and integrate information

 

 

Area of strength: Which standard was your strength and why?

Area of growth: Which standard needs improvement and how can you improve for the future ?

 

• Uses multiple sources to synthesize and integrate information. This standard continues to be my strength, since I enjoy reading multiple sources and gather the most important information.

• Interpret central ideas and provide an accurate summary of sources while demonstrating relationship among ideas. I think sometimes I write too much, which make my writing not well-organized and connect to other points.

 

Evidence: What evidence do you have of your learning?