Women in World War II Documentaries
Task:
Students will work in pairs to produce and present an informational video that will inform the class on a woman who played a key role in World War II.
Videos should be approximately 4 minutes in length, and include informational narration and images that will present the information in a concise and clear manner.
Students will have to become familiar with the Spark Video [Adobe Voice] app on the iPads, research their topics, and write an original script.
Assessment:
- Outline of topic from text - 15 points
- Original script 3 minutes - 50 points
- Documentary completion and presentation - 100 points
Procedure:
- Outline readings that relate to your topic from the textbook. This will be the basis of your project and is key to developing your documentary.
- Continue research in the library with the sources below. Save information, images, etc. to your Google Drive and "share" to your partner.
- Write an original script that will be well-organized and identify pictures that will be used at each point in the script.
- Submit script for approval.
- Create your documentary using the Spark Video [Adobe Voice] app on the iPad and "share" to publish. Equal Work! Equal Credit!
Topics and Essential Question:
Essential Question for all topics: What was their role in WWII? Why was it important?
- Violette Szabo
- Josephine Baker
- Wanda Gertz
- Julia Child
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Marion Pritchard
- Lyudmila Pavilichenko
- Tokyo Rose (radio propaganda in Japan)
- Night Witches (Russian fighter pilots)
- SPARS (Women in the US Coast Guard)
- Women's Auxiliary Corps (Women in the US Army)
- WASP (Women in the US Air Force)
- WAAF
- Women on the US Homefront
- Rosie the Riveter
Sources
Violette Szabo
- "Who was Violette Szabo?" The Imperial War Museum, UK
- "Behind Enemy Lines with Violette Szabo" Smithsonian
- The Violette Szabo Museum [UK]
Josephine Baker
- Josephine Baker Encyclopedia of World Biography
- "Josephine Baker: From Exotic Dancer to Activist" BBC
- Josephine Baker Notable Black American Women
Wanda Gertz
Julia Child
- "Julia Child...a Life Before French Cuisine" CIA History
- "Julia Child's Life had a Taste of Intrigue" USA Today
- Julia Child Encyclopedia of Pop Culture
- Julia Child's OSS Personnel File at the National Archives
- Video Clip Interview with Julia Child about her time at the OSS
Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt Historic World Leaders
- Eleanor Roosevelt and the Post WWII Refugee Crisis Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Liberalism and Israel
Marion Pritchard
- Marion Pritchard Obituary The New York Times
- Marion Pritchard, Dutch Savior Wallenberg Foundation
- Marion Pritchard Jewish Virtual Library
Lyudmila Pavliuchenko
- Lyudmila Pavliuchenko Encyclopedia of Russian History
- Eleanor Roosevelt and the Soviet Sniper Smithsonian
- Meet the World's Deadliest Female Sniper The Independent [UK]
Tokyo Rose (radio propaganda in Japan)
- Tokyo Rose Encyclopedia of Pop Culture
- Tokyo Rose Encyclopedia of World Biography
- Tokyo Rose Encyclopedia of Espionage
Night Witches (Russian fighter pilots)
- Meet the Night Witches from History Channel
- The Soviet Women Who Took to the Skies The Times of London
- Nadezhda Popova; Member of the Soviet Union's wartime 'Night Witches' The Times of London
- Attack of the Night Witches from The Spectator
- Night Witches from The Atlantic
- The Little-Known Story of the Night Witches from Vanity Fair
SPAR (Women in the US Coast Guard)
- Women in Uniform Americans on the Home Front
- SPARs Created (includes pictures and recruitment video) National WWII Museum
- The Women's Reserve US Coast Guard Blog
- Women of WWII (great pictures)
Women's Auxiliary Corps (Women in the US Army)
- Women in Uniform Americans on the Home Front
- The Skirted Army The National Museum of the US Army
- The 150,000 Woman Army America in WWII
- WAAC Created National WWII Museum
- Women of WWII (great pictures)
WASP (Women in the US Air Force)
- Women in Uniform Americans on the Home Front
- The Original Fly Girls from NPR
- Fly Girls from PBS American Experience (includes bios, timeline, photos and videos)
- Remembering the WASPS from CBS News
- WASP Photographs
- Women of WWII (great pictures)
WAAF (Women in the British Royal Air Force)
- WAAF Museum of the Royal Air Force
- Women in WWII: WAAF
Women on the US Homefront
- Women During WWII from Women in America
- The Homefront WWII Reference Library
- Women of WWII (great pictures)
Rosie the Riveter
- Rosie the Riveter Americans at War
- Rosie the Riveter Appears on the Cover of the Saturday Evening Post Milestones in History
- Rose Will Monroe from Newsmakers
- Norman Rockwell
Women Codebreakers
- How the American Women Codebreakers Helped Win the War Smithsonian
- The Brilliance of the Women Codebreakers of WWII Washington Post
- Female Codebreakers CNN
- Hacking the Nazis from TechRepublic (UK codebreakers)
- Bletchley Park Encyclopedia of Espionage (UK codebreakers)
Women's Land Army
- Agricultural Mobilization America on the Homefront (scroll down to WLA)
- Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army Michigan History Magazine
- What Was the Women's land Army? Imperial War Museum [UK]
- Women's land Army BBC [UK]
Women and the Manhattan Project
- Women Scientists in the Manhattan Project Atomic Heritage Foundation
- Women and the Bomb Atomic Heritage Foundation
- Women Scientists of the Manhattan Project AP Central
WAVES (Women in the US Navy)
- Women in Uniform Americans on the Home Front
- WAVES from UXL US History
- Remembering Navy WAVES US Department of Defense
- WAVES Photographs
- Women of WWII (great pictures)
Women in Nazi Germany
- Nazi Propaganda and the "Ideal Woman"
- Germany Awards the Mother's Cross from History Channel
- Women in the Third Reich US Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Nazi Germany - the Role of Women
- The League of German Girls [BDM]
- The Lebensborn Program Jewish Virtual Library
- Lebensborn Program
- The Perfect Nazi Bride The New Yorker
- Children, Kitchen, Church Holocaust Online
- Mothers for Germany: A Look at the Ideal Woman in Nazi Propaganda Graduate Thesis
- Frauen-Warte (German illustrated magazine for women)