Instructions:

Your task is to follow each of the following pairs of links. After visiting each set of sites, your team should:

1. discuss what it was like to be an editor, journalist or war correspondent reporting or defining this conflict.
2. go to your team's worksheet and write down an understanding or truth, based on the set #1 workstation/internet sites that you just visitied [see below]. If you need a worksheet, click here.
3. then proceed to the next pair of sites of materials and repeat steps 1 and 2
4. When you have visited, discussed and written down your understandings from the 3 sets of websites and/or other work stations that you visited, you will then complete the last section of your worksheet that answers the question "What was it like to be an editor, journalist or war correspondent during this conflict?".
   
   Remember, in the next stage [Stage 2] of this WebQuest, each member of your team will be sharing your team's response with a larger group of participants. Make sure your understanding and analysis will help this larger group understand the essential question better.

Remember - your entire team will be assessed on what you write down and turn in!

Visit these sites:

Bibliography:

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Cosmas, G.A (ed.). "World War I: Introduction." From War to Normalcy: An Introduction to the Nation's Forum Collection . 19 October 1998. The American Memory: Library of Congress. 28 December 1999. <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfexwwin.html>.

power of the press

Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: World War I: lessons 1. 1 July 1998. The Alabama Department of History and Archives. 1 January 2000.
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/ww1/lesson1/index.html

The Zimmerman Telegram

"The Zimmerman Telegram." Primary Sources and Activities for the Classroom. 7 January 1998. National Archives and Records Administration. 1 January 2000. <http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/zimmermann/zimmerma.html>.

Floyd Gibbons

Gibbons, Edward. "Floyd Gibbons at Belleau Wood." Trenches on the Web. 10 November 1999. Mike Iavarone's WWI Trenches on the Web. 1 January 2000. <http://www.worldwar1.com/sffgbw.htm>.

Headline: 1914

Brackett, CZ. "1914 WWI begins." A look at the 20th Century. 17 March 1999. The Augusta Chronicle: Celebrate 2000 History Section. 1 January 2000. <http://celebrate2000.augustachronicle.com/stories/033199/his_1914.shtml

Headline: 1915

Brackett, CZ. "1915: WWI rages." A look at the 20th Century. 17 March 1999. The Augusta Chronicle: Celebrate 2000 History Section. 1 January 2000. <http://celebrate2000.augustachronicle.com/stories/031699/his_1915.shtml>

The Augusta Chronicle

Brackett, CZ. "1917: US entered WWI." A look at the 20th Century. 17 March 1999. The Augusta Chronicle: Celebrate 2000 History Section. 1 January 2000. <http://celebrate2000.augustachronicle.com/stories/augusta/1900s/>.

Propaganda Leaflets

Hacken, R. and Plotke, J.. "WWWI Propaganda Leaflets." World War I Document Archive. 2 February 1996. Great War Primary Documents Archive, Inc. Great War Primary Documents Archive, Inc. 1 January 2000. <http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/propleaf.html>.