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:

1. 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.
2. Continue research in the library with the sources below. Save information, images, etc. to your Google Drive and "share" to your partner.
3. Write an original script that will be well-organized and identify pictures that will be used at each point in the script.
4. Submit script for approval.
5. 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)