Introduction lesson

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• Leerjaar 3

History year 3

Plan for today

• An important question
• What to expect this year
• Rules
• Who fights a war?

If you had to choose, in what time period in the past would you like to live and why?

What to expect this year...

- PTO available soon

- 3 tests in TW + various practical assignments

- 2 classes per week

- Topics: WWI, interbellum, WWII and the cold war

Rules

- Bring your book, notebook, pen and charged laptop to every class

- By prepared for class in every sense of the word

- Show respect towards each other and listen to one another

• Father in thy gracious keeping leave we now our loved one sleeping
  
• Dearest, as long as life and memory last we will remember thee.
• Sleep on dear son in a far off grave a grave we never see
• Love is stronger than death
  
• We sadly miss you willie, but may your soul rest in peace. Amen
  
• Deep in our hearts his memory lies
  
• You were ours and we remember though all the world forget
  
• A sacred spot that is forever england

• He made generously the sacrifice of his life for his country
  
• His path of duty was the way of glory
  
• We miss him yet proud that for god & country he fell. Loving parents
  
• Worthy of everlasting remembrance
  
• He died that we might live
• Ever nobly facing strife giving as an offering to his country - life!
  
• He died for the cause of humanity
• Duty nobly done
  
• Fain would we have kept him by our side but god called him
  

Who fights a war?

Never forget that history is about our story, it is always a human story

CWGC

Commonwealth War Graves Commision

"We honour and care for the men and women of the Commonwealth who died in the First and Second World Wars, ensuring they will never be forgotten. Funded by six Member Governments, our work began more than a century ago building cemeteries at 23,000 locations all over the world."

Nowadays, it is also a research institution...

Discover the story of a soldier

• Go to the website of CWGC
• Use the research tool to find a soldier
• Find as much information about his/her personal life and family
• Find as  much information about his/her life as a soldier, including the battle where he/she died
• Place all the info in a powerpoint and submit it in Classroom 

www.cwgc.org