Unit Plan: Remembrance Day / Veterans Day / Armistice Day (6-8) & (9+)
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This unit plan overview provides links to all lessons, along with links to accompanying teacher support materials that include:
- Literacy-building worksheets
- Creative activity
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Remembrance Day / Veterans Day / Armistice Day lessons and links to resources are listed below.
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- Lesson 1: Soldiers Not Only Fought the War, They Fought Disease Too (approx. 15 mins)
- Literacy Building Vocab 1 Worksheet & writing activity (approx. 20 minutes)
- Lesson 2: Why Did The Influenza Pandemic Make WWI Soldiers Sick? (approx. 15 mins)
- Lesson 3: Charles “Charlie” Henry Byce, Indigenous Canadian World War II Hero (approx. 20 mins)
- Literacy Building Vocab 2 Worksheet & creative appreciation activity (approx. 10 mins for vocab)
- Lesson 4: Blanche-Olive Lavallée: The Dangerous Work of Nurses in WWI (approx. 20 mins)
- Literacy Building Vocab 3 Worksheet (approx. 10 mins)
- Remembrance Day Activity: “Letter From Home” includes marking criteria (approx. 15 mins)
NOTE - this activity can be used for Grades 6 to 12
Here are links to the Grade 9+ lessons that have the same titles as Grade 6-8 lessons above and include very similar content but without vocabulary support. So the resources above will also work for 9+.
NOTE: There is an additional lesson 5 that is math-related:
- Lesson 1
- Lesson 2
- Lesson 3
- Lesson 4
- Lesson 5: Why Don't We Know The Exact Number Of People Who Died From The Spanish Flu?
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