TECHNOLOGY REPORT

Write a report on or letter about a World War I Technology, depending on if you have Internet access or not.  If you have access to the Internet, research one of the following World War I technologies and write a report. Make sure that you are looking at WWI versions of these items.

Start with this web site: Trenches on the Web: http://www.worldwar1.com/armory.htm

a. zeppelin

b. tank

c. machine gun

d. German planes

e. British and American planes

f. submarines (U-Boats)

g. poison gas attacks

h. mustard gas

 

Grading:

    -Report including one interesting story about the use of this technology (10pts)

    -Write down the web addresses you used (5pts)

    -Include an illustration of this technology (5pts)

    -Total  ___/20pts

If you do NOT have Internet access, write a letter to your family back home (you are at the Western Front fighting in the "Lone Star" Thirty-Sixth Division in France) about how one of these technologies is affecting you and your fellow soldiers.

Grading:

   -Proper letter form: Date, Salutation, Body, Complimentary Close (5pts)    

   -Include one interesting section about how this is affecting you. (5pts)

   -Include what your life is like in the trenches.

   -Write all this into at least 3 paragraphs (5pts)

   -Include an illustration of the technology (5pts)

   -Total  ____/20pts

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