Chapter 9 Lesson 1 Inquiry

Inquiry

How did World War I affect Canadians?

As you go through the resources, think about...

• how the Canadian people at home felt about the war
• what Canadians did to contribute to the war effort
• how women’s lives were changing 

1. Textbook
   
• Read pages 250 - 253
  
  
2. Library Books
   
• Where Poppies Grow, pages 24 – 31
• World War I, pages 28 – 31
  
• At Vimy Ridge, pages 4 – 5, 42 – 45
  
  If you were unable to borrow these books, look for information in other library books that you found:
  
  
  • how Canadians at home felt about World War I
  • what Canadians did in Canada to contribute to the war effort
  • how women’s lives in Canada changed during WWI 
  • how Canadian way of life changed during WWI
    
  
  
3. Websites
• Canadian War Museum Recruitment posters  
  
• Canadian War Museum War effort materials  
  
• The Homefront  
  
• Canada Remembers Women on the Home Front    
• Women and War
• Women in World War I
• Conscription Crisis
• The Battle of Vimy Ridge
  
  
  
4. Video

Notebook

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Digging Deeper

You may enjoy reading one of these novels about people at the time:  

• Levine, Beth Seidel. When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer. Scholastic Canada, 2002
• Little, Jean. Brothers Far from Home. Scholastic Canada, 2003.