The First World War

Few pieces of literature illustrate the points I intend to make better than Erich Maria Remarque's seminal classic All Quiet on the Western Front . All Quiet on the Western Front follows a teenage boy, just out of high school, as he enlists to fight in the war and comes to question the reasons behind the war and his own motivations for entering the war. By pairing All Quiet on the Western Front with contemporary poetry, artwork (such as political cartoons, bond and recruitment posters, and traditional artwork), speeches (for and against the war, from different perspectives, including different countries and organizations) and articles (contemporary and modern), I will give my students a well rounded, broad and deep understanding of important facets of the war.