{"id":4665,"date":"2020-03-12T17:11:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2020-03-22T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T14:13:02","slug":"the-battle-of-the-somme-haig-hero-or-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-battle-of-the-somme-haig-hero-or-butcher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of the Somme: Haig &#8211; hero or butcher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Battle of the Somme<\/strong><br \/>\nStudents conduct a debate on the issues of whether Haig was a good General, whether the battle plan was crazy, and whether it achieved its objectives. They do this by:<br \/>\n(a) Completing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/powerpoint\/gcse\/ww1\/somme_whseet.pdf\">this NEWLY EDITABLE worksheet<\/a> as the teacher goes through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/russeltarr\/the-battle-of-the-somme\">The Battle of the Somme PowerPoint<\/a>;<br \/>\n(b) Completing this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/gcse\/ww1\/course\/Somme.doc\">investigation workpack<\/a> about the Somme Offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/GCSE\/The_Great_War_Course.htm\"><strong>World War One study unit at ActiveHistory<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4059\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/anim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"538\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of the Somme Students conduct a debate on the issues of whether Haig was a good General, whether the battle plan was crazy, and whether it achieved its objectives. They do this by: (a) Completing this NEWLY EDITABLE worksheet as the teacher goes through The Battle of the Somme PowerPoint; (b) Completing this&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-battle-of-the-somme-haig-hero-or-butcher\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[1266,1268,1267,627,975],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-1df","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}