V4 Poetry reader: Wilfred Owen

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

Poetry Reader - Wilfred Owen

Poetry Project

Learning goals:

Learn about literature: language functioning in war rhetoric, study poems, study literary terms, create your own poem, take a writing test and discuss it all in groups. 

Program

- Learning goals

- Homework: summaries

- Information on Wilfred Owen

- Analysis poem by Wilfred Owen

- Reflection/Evaluation

Learning goals

At the end of this lesson: 

- You will have worked on the poetry project (Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth)

War Poets

Reader pages 10-11

Read the text, underline words/phrases you think are important information. 

Circle words/phrases you don't understand. 

Research:
Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War.

On November 4, 1918, just one week before the armistice was declared, ending World War I, the British poet Wilfred Owen is killed in action during a British assault on the German-held Sambre Canal on the Western Front.

What do you think of when you read the title:
Anthem for Doomed Youth?

Analyse the poem

Sit in groups of 4.  

 

Go to reader page 11

Answer the questions in English

We will discuss the answers together (if there's enough time)

Learning goals

At the end of this lesson: 

- You will have worked on the poetry project (Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth)