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World War I

World War I. L/Q: Do I know some key facts about WWI? Do I understand the term propaganda? Do I know how Jessie Pope use propaganda in her poetry?. World War I. LISTEN CAREFULLY! EACH PAIR THAT REMEMBERS AT LEAST 10 FACTS WILL GET A RAFFLE TICKET EACH.

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World War I

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  1. World War I L/Q: Do I know some key facts about WWI? Do I understand the term propaganda? Do I know how Jessie Pope use propaganda in her poetry?

  2. World War I • LISTEN CAREFULLY! • EACH PAIRTHAT REMEMBERS AT LEAST 10 FACTS WILL GET A RAFFLE TICKET EACH L/Q: Do I know some key facts about WWI?

  3. World War I • Began August 3, 1914 • Ended November 11, 1918 • Also called • The Great War • The War to End all Wars L/Q: Do I know some key facts about WWI?

  4. The British government wanted to encourage men to enlist for war. They said the war would be safe, hardly any fighting, a good lark and over by Christmas. They used advertising posters to encourage this idea! This is called PROPAGANDA A picture of soldiers going ‘Over the Top’

  5. Posters always showed men ready and willing to fight. They never showed the boredom of the trenches or actual fighting taking place. Why do you think the government showed no fighting?

  6. The reality of ‘going over the top’ was very different!

  7. Life in the Trenches . . . was difficult, filthy and morose.

  8. No smiling and relaxed faces… No clean uniforms… Their equipment is scattered everywhere… Boredom and sleep are obvious…

  9. Trench System

  10. The Front Line

  11. Water Logged Trenches

  12. Contaminated Water caused Dysentery

  13. Freezing Winters

  14. Trench Foot Result from the daily exposure to filthy, disease-filled water common in the bottom of trenches.

  15. Gas Masks Used to prevent a horrid, painful slow death resulting from mustard gas attacks.

  16. The soldiers had very little decent food, and what food they had was often attacked by rats. These rats were the size of small rabbits and badgers because they had fed on the decomposing bodies of dead soldiers.

  17. L/Q: Do I know some key facts about WWI? In your pairs, try to remember as many things as you can about WWI. Each person must write them in their own book. YOU HAVE 3 MINUTES!

  18. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’Wilfred Owen Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point?

  19. Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point? • THESE ARE SOME WORDS FROM THE POEM WE WILL BE STUDYING! • Try to: • Write your own poem about WWI • Draw an image for each of the phrases • Write a story about one of them COUGHING LIKE HAGS LIMPED ON smothering dreams drowning Men marched asleep stumbling CHILDREN gas-shells guttering YELLING innocent choking white eyes writhing in his face gargling from the froth corrupted lungs

  20. The Dying Men Coughing like hags the men troop to their deaths; Men marched asleep smothering their dreams of children writhing in agony.

  21. Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point? Wilfred Owen • Born 1893 • Died November 4th, 1918 • Killed in action, just a week before war ended. • News of his death reached his mother just as the town’s church bells were ringing for victory at the end of the war. • One of the war’s most famous poets for speaking out against the death and destruction it brought.

  22. Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point? Read the poem and highlight any lines which explain Owen’s viewpoint about the war. Can you identify examples of: metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, powerful adjectives or verbs, anything else? Whiteboards: hold up the correct answer when I have read the line.

  23. Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point? • Group work: • Draw a table in your book • Choose 3 lines which you think best explain Owen’s viewpoint • Write down which technique he has used and how it expresses his viewpoint

  24. Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point?

  25. Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point?

  26. Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point? Peer Assessment: Pass your all your books to another group. At the bottom of each column say whether you agree or disagree with what they have written and explain why.

  27. Learning Questions: Do I understand Wilfred Owen’s viewpoint? Can I explain how he uses poetic techniques to convey his view point? AGREE – Owen can’t forget even in his dreams.

  28. HOMEWORK Write a description (or a poem) of the war from Owen’s viewpoint. It should include at least one simile, one metaphor and one example of onomatopoeia - Friday 1stoctober

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