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• Educa ti o n Guid e A MESSAGE TO TEACHERS T Photo: Farah Nosh his innovative Education Guide accompanies the highly acclaimed Canadian production of Passchendaele. Its purpose is to enhance your students’ learning and appreciation of the pivotal role that this 1917 battle played within Canadian history. Te questions and activities of the Guide also aim to have students examine issues and situations from both an individual, humanistic point of view as well as from a macro perspective. Structured around four primary sources from the First World War, this Guide asks students to think, and to empathize as they analyze and deconstruct those pieces of evidence. Tis generic approach allows teachers to select those sources, those questions, and those activities that are most appropriate to their students and to the constraints of time. We sincerely believe that whether students respond to a single question or answer all of them, their comprehension and understanding of the Battle of Passchendaele specifically, and of First World War generally, will be greatly expanded. “I stood up and looked over the font of my hole. Tere was a dreary waste of mud and water, no relic of civilization, only shell holes… And 2 everywhere there were bodies, English and German, in all stages of decomposition.” Lieutenant Edwin Campion Vaughan TABLE OF CONTENTS Ways to Get Involved ..................................................... 3 Message from Paul Gross ................................................. 3 Canada and the First World War ......................................... 4 Passchendaele Introduction .............................................. 5 First World War Timeline ................................................ 6-7 Working With Primary Sources .......................................... 8 Classroom Primary Source 1 – ‘Family Treasure’ ........................ 8 Classroom Primary Source 2 – ‘Death Notice’ .......................... 9 Classroom Primary Source 3 – ‘Great War Letter’ ....................... 10 Classroom Primary Source 4 – ‘Passchendaele Trench’ .................. 11 Media Literacy ........................................................... 12 P asschendaele

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