Choose Your Own WWI Adventure – 2P

Name: ______

Date: ______

1.  Log onto the website http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/explore/games-fun/games-fun

2.  Select the “Choose your own Adventure” link.

3.  You will participate in an interactive WWI Trench Warfare simulation where you are a soldier who must fight in the war AND make decisions to keep yourself alive! Good Luck!

Make a list of WWI Terms that you learn as you go on your adventure. List the terms and definition in the chart below. You can type the answers directly into the chart.

Term / Definition
1. Artillery
2. Bayonet
3. Communication wire
4. Company
5. Duck-boards
6. Dugout
7. Firesteps
8. Gas mask
9. Kaiser
10. Mortar
11. No Man's Land
12. Parapet
13. Platoon
14. Poison gas
15. Sap
16. Shell
17. Sniper
18. Trench
19. Western Front

Short Answer Questions:

1) What three reasons does the main character give for having volunteered to join the army?

a)  ______

b)  ______

c)  ______

2) From the passages in the story, outline a ‘typical day’ of a Canadian soldier in the trenches.

______

3) Make a list of the types of dangers that soldiers faced while fighting in the trenches.

a)  ______

b)  ______

c)  ______