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=The diary is due in this Wednesday - week 9. = = = 'The Machine Gunner' Research assignment: Background to ‘The Machine Gunners’. WALT locate relevant information. Task : locate appropriate information and write a 3 day diary about World War II and how it affected the lives of those left at home. Think about how you will present your information. To write the diary you will be an 11 year old girl or boy at that time.

Consider the following questions: Find out what impact World War II had on ordinary men, women and children left at home. Consider how their lives were affected? What happened to schools? How did the war change the lives of women? What would it have been like to live with the danger of bombing raids? What was it like in the air-raid shelters? What did people eat?

WILF: • evidence of research – bibliography • questions have been answered • the information has been written in paragraphs.