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Subject: History and ICT Project |
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Date: ___________________ |
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Remembrance Day Web Quest
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Remembrance Day is on the 11th November. It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts. At one time the day was known as Armistice Day and was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War.
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Using Google you are to research Remembrance Day during your ICT lessons in order to produce an assignment using Word. In your assignment you are to answer the following questions.
1. When is Remembrance Day and why do we still have Remembrance Day?
2. What happens on Remembrance Day in England?
3. Why is the poppy a symbol of remembrance?
4. What does the fourth stanza of the poem 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon (1869 - 1943) mean?
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
5. Who was the first person to wear a poppy in remembrance?
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You will need to include in your assignment:
- A cover page on Remembrance Day
- A contents page
- Pictures that you have searched for on the internet
- Answers to the above 5 questions
- A reference page
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Using the following websites, research Remembrance Day.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/remembrance.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/a653924
http://www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance/how/
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This Web Quest is available at www.teach-nology.com |
