Children At WW1 Children's book

Children at WW1 (children's book writing)

WALT: Write a children's book about WW1, This is just the writing and not stuff like the pictures and spacing everything out.

Children at WW1

When World War 1 started nearly all the men from New Zealand went off to fight with the British Empire. This left only woman and children in New Zealand to have to do all the work the men would usually do. Boys at the age of 12 would start training to go into the war and the girls would learn how to knit and bake for to send socks and biscuits to the soldiers fighting.

Apart from training the children had to farm all their food because there was a large shortage of food. If you didn’t farm you could only buy so much because there was a list that the government gave you called a ration coupon. These coupons would only let you have so much food before you got a new one, and how much you could get varied on how big your family was.

The life that the children lived wasn’t as easy as it is today either, you couldn’t really do anything in schools without being smacked by a cane, and you didn’t just learn to read, write, etc. You would do a lot of fitness to prepare you for when you went to war and a lot of the children went to war faking their age thinking it would be an amazing adventure going to Gallipoli (and other areas ANZAC soldiers went to) but it wasn’t as great as they thought...

The war was a sad failure for a lot of our soldiers in Gallipoli, they all came up onto the beaches  with their boats and while getting out around 3,000 of the soldiers were shot by Turkish soldiers up a hill, but the surviving soldiers did well helping out the British Empire.The countries fighting with our soldiers were Australians, Indians, British and Canadians, which is all of the British Empire.

The war ended in 1918 when Germany realised they couldn’t win and signed an agreement to have peace and to stop fighting which was prepared by Britain and France. However Germans later fought in 1939-1945. Since then Germany is still a bit of a threat but they haven’t tried to cause any wars lately.

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