Launch

📬 WWI Letters Mystery Launch

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving Content Expertise CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.7 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.7 VA:Cn10.1.IIa CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.9 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7 VA:Pr.6.1 VA:Cn11.1 Submission Required

Students rotate through stations with reproduced trench letters, home-front letters, casualty lists, propaganda posters, and wartime photographs, annotating what each source suggests about the effects of government choices. At each station, they add one 'I notice,' one 'I wonder,' and one possible leadership decision connected to the evidence on a shared chart. The class closes by naming recurring human-impact mysteries that deserve investigation.

Plan day
Day 7
Duration
55 min
Grouping
Small Group
Steps