In our most recent project we started learning more about Canadas impact on WWI. I chose to focus on A Canadian Pilot called Wop May, Who was in the last ever dog fight with The Red Baron. We learned about the key things Canada did in the War and how it made a impact, big or small to the story of our country. 

Our final products for this project where Comics that we would walk through Wops story and how it changed his life over the span of the war. This comic would be about 20 panels long and would go over the war and the story we made to help us learn about WWI.

The personI chose to study was Wilfred (better known as Wop) May. Wop was one of the best known pilots in WWI so everyone was kind of afraid of him. This made it quite easy to research him since there were a lot of sources about him. I learned a lot about how the old planes worked and often didn’t work because of how unstable there motors were. This was actually a massive problem in his last dogfight with The Red Baron, in this fight his guns jammed and made it nearly impossible for him to Sophie down The Red Baron, but he did it somehow anyways.

This was also our exhibition project which meant we had to present the comic to our parents and the general public. We set up our tables and pout decorations that matched our comics and the other people at our stations comics. This was really important because it really set the mood and helped us picture what it would be like in WWI. In the end the exhibition went really well, I got alot of people that came to my table, and I got to teach about WWI.

Overall I think that this project really helped me figure out what Can dads impact was on WWI. I learned a lot about how The aerial side of war caused tensions and fuelled a lot of the fight for WWI. It’s interesting to see how Canadian pride led to tension between countries and eventually big impact on war. While war can be motivating, it can also be dangerous for the future of countries if taken too far. This project has sparked my interest in studying WWI and its impact on the world.