Letters that he wrote home. I will open the class with an excerpt from one of the letters so they get an idea for what he was thinking before going into battle the first time. As we go through the slides of the photos I will read more of the letters so they understand the feelings of a man in war. I hope that the students will be able to tell me things about the battles and photos before I have to tell them. If they are able to ask me pertinent questions with out me having to probe them for questions I will know I have succeeded.
Topics can range from the home front to military service and even reach minority groups.
Students will be able to put the scope of the war into a perspective all their own so that it reaches them much more personally. Our relatives figuratively speaking saved the world from the domination of axis rule. Today the students will be teaching me they will be telling me how the war touched them. I will sit back and listen to anything they have to say. They are teachers for the day.