WWI Experience Assessment

Name: __________________________ Due date: Thursday 12th April 2018

Duty Calls…A WWI Experience

You are a soldier or nurse serving New Zealand in World War I. Write a letter, postcard,
journal entry, poem, song or storyboard detailing your experience of one day in WWI.
You must choose to write from one of the following four perspectives:
1. Pākeha soldier serving in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF).
2. Māori soldier serving in the Māori Contingent or Māori Pioneer Battalion.
3. Pasifika soldier serving in the NZEF or Pioneer Battalion.
4. Nurse serving in the New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
Your letter, postcard, journal entry, poem, song or storyboard must address each of the
following three sections:*
1. Personal details
Talk about items such as:

 Your name, country of origin and which organisation you are serving with (e.g.
New Zealand Army Nursing Service).
 Where you are serving

2. The effect of war on people’s lives

Talk about items such as:

 Why you are serving New Zealand in WWI (e.g. willingly, conscription, etc.)
 Your day to day experience of war (e.g. the sounds, the people around you, deaths,
chemical warfare, boredom and so on).
 The conditions you are in (e.g. weather, the food, diseases and so on).
 The differences between your home and the war front (e.g. what do you miss from
home, think about aspects of your home and culture you would not have access
to such as food, beaches etc.)
 Decide whether the war is worth fighting.

3. Object from war

 You must also choose an object to send/leave with your letter, postcard, journal
entry, poem, song or storyboard. This should be something you would have had
access to during the war, such as a dog tag, a religious cross, matches, a wedding
ring etc. Explain the significance that this object has for you.
*Note that you do not have to include these details in the order that is set out above.
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Bibliography (A reference list): is a crucial part of any work you do, especially in Social Studies.
People who read your assignments need to be able to see where you got the information (sources)
from. It is also a way of demonstrating that you have found evidence that supports what you say in
your assessment or writing. This makes your work more trustworthy.

Books: Record the author’s name, then put the title of the book next and write the date it was
published.
 Commager, Henry Steele, The West: An Illustrated History, 1976.
 Authors name, title, date it was published.

Websites: Put the title of the webpage, then where it is available at (site web link), and then the
date you accessed (found) it.
 ‘The Wild West’, available at http://www.thewildwest.org/ [accessed 16 February 2010].
 Title of the webpage, where it is available, date you accessed the website.
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Success Criteria

NOT YET ACHIEVED MERIT EXCELLENCE

ACHIEVED
Attempts to Will be able to describe Will be able to describe Will be able to
describe how how WWI affected and explain how WWI comprehensively
WWI affected people’s lives. affected people’s lives. describe and explain how
people’s lives. WWI affected people’s
lives.

Will have included and Will have included and Will have included and
described an described an described an appropriate
appropriate object from appropriate object object from WWI and
WWI. from WWI and discussed its significance
provided a reason for from the perspective of
its inclusion. the chosen individual.

This will be based on This will be based on This will be based on

their interpretation of their clear their thorough
one of the listed interpretation of one of interpretation of one of
perspectives the listed perspectives the listed perspectives
(soldier/nurse). (soldier or nurse). (soldier or nurse).

Will have undertaken Will have undertaken

independent research. detailed independent
research.

Students will attempt Students will write a Students will write a

writing a bibliography. bibliography bibliography accurately,
accurately. with a variety of sources.

My work portrays how WWI affected people’s lives. /15

I have included and described an appropriate and significant /10
object from WWI.
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My work is based on a clear interpretation of the experiences of /10

one of the listed perspectives.
My work portrays some independent research/bibliography /10
I have chosen a presentation method that is reflective of the /5
experiences of the perspective I have chosen (nurse/soldier).