![]() ![]() I also provide them with a list of other books related to the Great War and the early 1900s. One of their assignments is to find a way to represent the 29 million dead and wounded – to attempt to understand what that number really means and begin to understand the unprecedented toll WWI had on the world. The kids always come up with creative and compelling ways to show the number – like this example using Cheerios: There is even a small group of 8th grade students reading the classic novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. In literature class, the students are reading The Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence and War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. Inly’s middle school students are studying World War I. They are reading “In Flanders Fields,” studying the map of Europe in 1914, and trying to wrap their heads around the unfathomable number of the dead and wounded. ![]()
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