History Project Example

 

Step 1 READ

Step 2 Choose a Topic

Step 3 READ some MORE

As you do step 3, you should be gathering lots and lots of facts and sources. Once you have scores of facts put down, with their sources, then we need to organize the facts. 

Here is my example for The Battle of Vimy Ridge

Step 4 Gather Notes (15 marks)

______ Title (name of event/person/activity,and your name) 1 mark-Keep focused on the topic
-Canada conquering Vimy Ridge
_______Who/What (describe major people/groups/event/action/activity involved) 1-See above-Focus!
-Canada fighting for the first time as a Canadian Army with Canadian leaders attack Vimy ridge
 ______ When (period it took place, try and be very specific)1-Focus
-The Attack happened on Easter Weekend, 
_______How (How it worked, happened, was created/created change)Multiple Marks
-Canadian soldiers, besides fighting for the first time as a -country, used new tactics. See Below 

-Extensive planning and mapping of the area with planes

-Practicing the battle plan 

-Letting the soldiers know the battle plans

-Creeping barrage where the soldiers followed closely behind the shells

-Very heavy barrage before the attack

-Canada succeeded during the weekend of fighting with about 10,000 causalities (about 3,000 of those dead)
 ______ Why (purpose/significance of event/action/activity/person) was important. Impact on us today? Multiple Marks
-Vimy Ridge, being high land, was seen as being strategically important. The importance of the Ridge to winning the war was probably overstated.

-The Allies didn't have much success in the War to this point.

-France had 150,000 causilties themselves trying to take Vimy Ridge from 1914 to 1916.

-With this success, Canada became the soldiers that the Allies heavily used in attack and the soldiers the Germans most watched out for. 

 ______ Interesting facts and explanations Multiple Marks

-Vimy Ridge land was given to Canada by the French

Big beautiful monument is on the Ridge, which is a Canadian Park.

-The war monument was one of the few Hitler didn't have destroyed when he captured France. It seems he liked it. 

-General Byng was the British officer looking over what the Canadians did (couldn't trust the colonials to be completely unsupervised) later changed his name to 1st Viscount Byng of VIMY and became the G.G. of Canada

-Byng's Wife, Lady Byng, created the Lady Byng Trophy

_______Sources!!!! Have more than one, and be careful when picking your sources. 

Wikipedia is not a bad place to start, but isn't a good reference because it is every changing. It does list sources though, so consult those! 

https://www.warmuseum.ca/the-battle-of-vimy-ridge/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vimy-ridge

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/fact_sheets/vimy

https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/vimy-ridge

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/the-great-war-battle-of-vimy-ridge

https://www.cobourgmuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/VimyCompressed.pdf

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-germans-considered-it-a-victory-too-rare-images-showing-everything-you-didnt-know-about-vimy-ridge