Sunday, 17 March 2019

A piece of Literature: War Poets

Hi guys...

a challenge activity for you:
let's talk about Literature...

Context: WWI

Contents: War Poet, Poems' Analysis, Life in the Trenches

Warm-up: Reflections 
Before you start try to answer these questions with a post:

  1. Who were the 'War Poets'?
  2. Why did they get that name?
  3. In which historical period did they live?
  4. What do their poems talk about?
  5. Why are they so important?

Now click on the link below and watch the video:

http://www.nfb.ca/film/front-lines-the-trenches/

Then read a letter (following link) W. Owen wrote to his family:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IDSfA05oy-JoImS2zKTCeE-__KGwlO-G/view?usp=sharing

Give a brief description of the life in trenches:
Time travel: go back to 1914/18 (be careful it was a terrible time) and pretend to be a soldier on Britain's front.
Write a letter to your family, describing your daily life and your feelings.

See you back at school!

Here's the text analysis, print it and take it to school:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xYsyTAq7XubT_kNW_P4gFZIIJujs3nge/view?usp=sharing

Class PPT to study:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eq3BMjiS0pmSLq13V2531ehXK9hmqCWn/view?usp=sharing

2 comments:

  1. Alyssia 3A
    1-The War poets were poets that wrote poems during the first world war;
    2-They get that name because they wrote poems during the war;
    3-They lived during the first world war;
    4-Their poems talk about terrible events and conditions that there were during the war;
    5-They are so important because they make us understand how live during the war was

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  2. 1)They were poets who wrote during the WWI and about it.
    2)Because they wrote about it.
    3)During the WWI,after the 1914.
    4)Their poems talk about the WWI.
    5)They are so important because they wrote about the war and so we can know many situations in that period.
    Isabel Miazzi class 3a

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