Recruiting, recruits & equipment

2. Recruitment

Required Resources

• Student Worksheets 1a-1k

Delivery

• Display the Student Worksheets, which show various recruitment posters in different positions around the room, making sure that the students can easily view them.
• Ask the students to analyse the poster on each Student Worksheet, using the five W's (Who, What, Where, When and Why?) to determine how effective they believe each poster would have been in driving recruitment.
• Students should be asked to compare the posters, noting any differences they recognise between posters produced at the beginning and end of the war (e.g. is the target audience / mode of encouragement different following the introduction of conscription or the broadening of the draft to include married men?).
• Allow students 15 minutes to collect information and compare the posters before initiating a class discussion and asking students to feedback their findings.

Differentiation

Lower Ability:

Lower ability students might benefit from completing the initial analysis of the posters in pairs.

Higher Ability:

Students can be asked to create their own recruitment poster. They should write brief explanatory notes explaining the target audience (age, class etc) and why they think it would be successful.