We are currently reading about WW1.   nsremom of The Learning Never Stops wants to know what wonderful ideas I have for our unit study. 

There are no magnificent projects or amazing field trips happening here.  We are just reading three books about the war.  All three are older books that were given to me.

Book of World War 1 by Louis Snyder (I'm reading this one aloud because it has a chapter at the end about how WONDERFUL the League of Nations is, and how it promises to bring about justice and an end to wars.... Uhh,,, we'll just skip that part)
The Great War by Edward Jablonskin (my boys really liked this one)
Americas First World War (A Landmark) by Henry Castor. 

Then I have a documentary that I picked up that we will watch.  I am not sure if this will keep the attention of my 2 middle boys.  I'd also like to get the movie Sargeant York.

PBS is airing a special Ken Burns Film on WW1.  It is scheduled for Sept 23 here.  I've seen some Ken Burns films in the past and they were interesting. 

For some reason I could not find much material on WW1.   WW2 however is a different story.  There is a ton of stuff available.  Evenwhen I did a search for World War 1 unit study middle school.  I got a site or two about WW1 and then a bunch on WW2.  Often when I do a search like that it'll give me ideas for stuff to do.  Not this time. 

So nothing very exciting but the boys wanted to study the wars and this was all I could come up with.