The teacher posts three short extracts on the causes of the First World War: Fritz Fischer arguing that Germany deliberately pursued war to achieve its aims, James Joll on the 'unspoken assumptions' shared across Europe's leaders, and Christopher Clark's case in The Sleepwalkers that responsibility was shared. Each student posts a two-sentence justification in the Padlet column for the interpretation they find most convincing, citing one piece of evidence from their own knowledge. The teacher checks the column sizes, asks the smallest column to make its case first, and then has each student reply to one post in a column they disagree with. Students end by writing a judgement paragraph that names the interpretation they rejected and why.
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