This lesson contains 15 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 4 videos.
Lesson duration is: 60 min
Items in this lesson
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936
and WW 1
Slide 1 - Slide
Go on the internet and find at least three things about Rudyard Kipling.
( Please no date of birth or date of death)
Slide 2 - Open question
Slide 3 - Video
Slide 4 - Video
Name at least three things you know about WW1
28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918)
Slide 5 - Open question
Slide 6 - Video
Slide 7 - Video
Before the First World War erupted across Europe, poems about war used to be… different. Before the trenches and thefields of Flanders, famous war poems were usually focussed on the glories of war and the great honour in battle.
Slide 8 - Slide
www.poetryfoundation.org
Slide 9 - Link
www.poetryfoundation.org
Slide 10 - Link
common form
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
Slide 11 - Slide
r.a.f. (aged eighteen)
Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed,
Cities and men he smote from overhead.
His deaths delivered, he returned to play
Childlike, with childish things now put away.
Slide 12 - Slide
Slide 13 - Slide
Why do you think he wrote this?
Slide 14 - Slide
Is 'My Boy Jack' based on a true story?
Yes it is based on the true story of Rudyard Kipling trying to pull strings and use his influence in high places to get his short-sighted son into the armed forces for the First World War.