The first orientation activity, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,"  focuses on the long-term causes of WWI.  There are two main options for teaching it:

1. a longer version that can be used as a stand-alone unit, if desired.  It has a separate activity with several resource cards for each long-term cause: militarism, alliances, nationalism, and imperialism.  It provides greater depth of understanding of the long-term causes, but really must be done in more than one round to access that depth. If you choose to use the materials for one round only, you will need to be very active in your orientation to the activity and as the students work in their groups, asking questions and pushing students to a deeper level, since the material is complex.

2. a condensed version created for the 2005-2006 school year.  It  combines all four of the long-term causes into one activity, with only one resource card each for militarism, alliances, nationalism and imperialism.  The condensed version provides less in-depth coverage of the long-term causes, but will take less time since it can be taught once.  There are four different group tasks, but all students work with the same resource cards.

 

Important: when printing copies,  please be sure to print each of the activities twice so that you have enough copies for up to eight groups.

 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly  - Long (full) Version Content Literacy: including Pre-Reading Guides (8 pages) and Graphic Organizers (4 pages) - see handouts under WWI unit.  There are separate content literacy handouts for each of the four activities below. Divider page Alliances Imperialism Militarism Nationalism Note-taking matrix  (same as 2000-2001 version) See notes above     The Good, the Bad and the Ugly  - Condensed Version Content Literacy: including Pre-Reading Guide (2 pages) and Graphic Organizer (1 page) - see handouts under WWI unit.  Content literacy handouts are the same for each activity. Divider page Alliances, Imperialism, Militarism and Nationalism combined See notes above