Literature and Book Resources

  This page will provide a list of potential literature and primary source materials that may be incorporated with this unit on Woodrow Wilson/World War I.  The sections are divided by genre as well as theme appropriate for upper elementary, middle and high school students.  Some resources may be easily used with modifications.  For the World War I poetry unit, the suggested book list that I use listed below.  To view a title, simply click your mouse on the book cover.  This is a direct link to Amazon where you can read or order the books.

             POETRY - WORLD WAR I RESOURCE LIST

		Newer Edition
Penguin Book Poetry of World War I	History and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion	History and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion
	Check used Books - I got it for 1 cent

                                  Trench War and Diaries

Postcards from the Trenches	Generals Die in Bed (gas masks, lice, and more from the trenches)
War Letters of a Fallen Englishmen
Nurse at the Trenches - Letters Home	In the Trenches in World War I	Letters from an American girl serving in a French Army Hospital at the Front

                      Literature Based on True Events

               Pictures and Text

In Flanders Fields

This book resembles a WWI scrapbook.  Excellent!

Based on the story of British and German soldiers playing football on Christmas Day, 1914

      Dear America Books - Historical Fiction

                  Upper Elementary, Middle, ESOL High School

When Christmas Comes Again: The WW1 Diary of Simone Spencer

A Time for Courage:  The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917

   A book for children written during WW1 about animals "doing their bit" in the War

                                 LAND, AIR, AND SEA STORIES

The Doughboys	Diary of a U-Boat Commander	Yankee Ace in the RAF

                     Primary/Secondary Resources

                                               Women and the War

	These two books - Women's Writing WWI may be used as a teacher resource for background or for older audiences.  One is Women's Writing OF; the other is Women's Writing ON WWI

                  Interesting Literature - Fiction

Birdsong, A Novel of Love and War (fiction fun)- This may have been a PBS special series, too.	This book is interesting and has parts that may be read aloud to students.	Between the Sword and the Wall, a Novel of WW1

                                        More Historical Fiction

	Easy Reading Level	I have not read this one but it is on my list of things to do

                    Woodrow Wilson

		High School - Adult
Upper Elem/Middle School	Wilson and T. Roosevelt       Teacher Resource Book          My favorite book!	Lives of Presidents: Fame, Shame,( and what the neighbors thought)

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