Activities Summary

In this activity, students will:

• Read several personal accounts of Canadian men and women from World War I
• Create a storyboard illustrating the personal account of one of these individuals
• Identify Essential Skills from their own and their peers’ storyboards

Prior Knowledge

• Essential Skills
• Storyboard methods

Teaching Planning Notes

• Review assignment including prior knowledge required and rubric
• Provide students with access to the computer, internet and headphones
  for audio diaries
• Review whether assignment is to be completed alone or with partners
• Review VAC (Veterans Affairs Canada website) for interviews in print
  and audio versions (http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/)
• Provide students with materials for storyboard (Bristol board, markers, rulers)
• Provide opportunity for classroom discussion at the end of the assignment to review the lives of these individuals and the skills they used
• Provide an exemplar

Assessment and Evaluation of Student Achievement

Activities and Evaluation Materials

• Storyboard Assignment Sheet
• Storyboard Rubric
• Peer Evaluation of Essential Skills