Postcards Of War Mini-Project

Due March 17th

For this project, you are expected to practice historical
perspective writing by creating a war-time postcard. You can
decide whether the postcard is sent from the home-front to a
soldier, or from a soldier on the front lines to home. Your post card
should elaborate on the details of WWI: if you choose to write
from the home-front, explain what changes are taking place. If
you write from the battlefield, discuss things like technological
changes and geography. This post-card should be written from a
first-person perspective (i.e. you should be stating things from
an I perspective) and should present a clear picture of what it
was like to live through World War I.
Your postcard MUST include:

A colored visual representation on the front (This can be a re-

creation of propaganda at the time, a picture of a soldiers
family, or even a picture from the front lines no blood or
gore though!) THIS MUST BE HAND-DRAWN, and you
should spend time on this drawing. No stick figures!!
Who the postcard is from, and to whom and where its
headed (explain the relationship and why you are writing a
postcard to this person)
A descriptive message of life on the home-front or on the
front lines (this should dive into how the war has changed
your life and what it now looks like)
First-person writing style this is a letter!! Additionally,
your letter should reflect thoughtfulness this means few to
no grammar mistakes and correct spelling. No Us!!
A stamp that depicts a person of importance during World
War I: this person should be referenced to in your letter.
Your postcard can be handwritten or typed and printed out
(Please choose the latter option if you feel you have bad
handwriting).
 Must be 12-15 sentences long. These sentences should
thoughtfully describe historical events taking place at the
time. The events should make sense and relate to your story.
Do not just throw in events that dont relate to your persona!
Content Rubric:
1 2 3 4 5
Grammar Little regard for Frequent Some Few No
grammar; many misspellings misspellings misspellings misspellings
& Spelling misspellings that and/or and/or and/or or
interrupt graders grammatical grammatical grammatical grammatical
ability to read errors errors errors errors present
through postcard
Appropria No image Image Image shows Image shows Image is
provided/ Image is shows lack some effort, a good clearly
te not hand-drawn or of effort/ but lacks amount of relatable, well
Image not appropriate Does not effort and thought out,
depict image is and shows
appropriate relatable appropriate
or related effort
material
Message is
Appropria Message is
somewhat
Writer does not Message is Message is
difficult to read/ meet length legible; clear; Writer
te Length not an appropriate
difficult to read/
requirement, Writer meets meets or
Writer makes
and length some effort but but shows minimum exceeds
is not close to some effort. requirement requirement
Legibility minimum
for length for length
required length.
Grade: ____________/15
Comments:
Writing Rubric
1 2 3 4 5
Perspective- Writer does Writer Writer uses Writer Writer uses
attempts to basic first uses first first person
Taking not use a first writing, shows
use first person person
person point empathy, and
Writing person, but writing, but writing includes
of view does not do
lacks details and details about
so entirely their
and empathy mentions
successfully characters
some
life
details
Writer does not Writer mentions Writer
Historical Writer
a few events mentions a
Writer
incorporate mentions a mentions
Content and few historical but lacks few key several key
historical details or events,
Accuracy events of events with
reference to including
events,
little regard including
relevance their letter details, that
for relevance somewhat details, that
and/or align with align with
inaccurate their letter their letter
details
Contextualiza Writer does not Writer Writer mentions
some historical
Writer
mentions
Writer
mentions
mention mentions
tion historical events, some events and historical multiple
details, but events, historical
or mentions historical
needs more provides events,
historical events events and
explanation as some details, bringing in
that are not details, but to how they fit and details and
appropriate to does explain into the story accurately connecting
this time their connects them clearly
connection them to the to the story of
life of their their character
character
Grade: ____________/15
Comments: