Armistice Day

We have discussed Armistice Day several times in these blogs, and the opportunity that this gives for history IB students to play a role in explaining to the rest of your school the significance of this event.

I’ve used Siegfried Sassoon’s poem Aftermath at several Remembrance Assemblies; students can read it out - or this version by Jeremy Irons is very moving.

(This excerpt comes from Episode 7 of 'The Great War, 1914 to 1918' which deals with the impact the war, including responses to the horror such as Käthe Kollwitz' statue shown above. The link and ATL for this video can be found here: 3. First World War: Effects (ATL)

The BBC site also has Assembly resources that can be used:

Your IB students can also of course use the multitude of resources on line to develop their own understanding of the signficance of the war if they are doing this topic as part of their course:

(There are many good resources on the BBC site - the oral interviews with those who were involved in the war are particularly interesting and poignant)

November also marks the anniversary of women getting the vote for the first time in the UK and to mark this event, women politicians from all over the world are coming to London:

As ever, this month has seen several additions to the site. Links to all new pages or those with updates are listed below.

Quizzes

We are continuing to add quizzes to key topics. You will find more for the Inter-war Years, for Imperial Russia and for the Soviet Union topics for European region, Paper 3.

Graded student essays

An essay on the United Front has been added to the China and Korea topic for Paper 3, Asian region

New pages

The next section of the American Civil War has been added and Japan under Occupation has been added to to Japan, 1910 to 1990

New Activities

An ATL on the Structuralist versus Intentionalist interpretation of Hitler's rule has been added to the Hitler page of the Inter War Years.