This lesson contains 17 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
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Remembrance day
11th November 2023
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Remembrance Day
In this lesson you will:
- know what is celebrated on the 11th of November
- learn more about Remembrance Day & WWI
- know the meaning of poppies
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Remembrance day
Watch the video:
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Remembrance day 11-11
- Poppies in Flanders
- Between 700,000 and 900,000 military deaths / 20 million in total
- Previously known as 'Armistice Day' (armistice = truce)
- Trenchwar (loopgravenoorlog)
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De Eerste Wereldoorlog
2. De Grote Oorlog
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Slide 6 - Video
00:41
What is Remembrance Day?
Slide 7 - Open question
01:01
When is Remembrance Day celebrated? Why then?
Slide 8 - Open question
01:36
What was the Poppy a symbol of? Why is is connected with the war?
Slide 9 - Open question
02:13
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02:47
Why is the Poppy a symbol?
Slide 11 - Open question
03:41
Why is 'Lest we Forget' an appropriate theme of Remembrance Day?
Slide 12 - Open question
In Flanders Fields is one of the most famous war poems. It was written in 1915 by a Canadian military doctor, John McCrae, who saw his friends die on the battlefields in Belgium during World War 1. Flanders, referred to in the poem, is a county in northwest Belgium.
John McCrae wrote the poem in less than an hour. He was very upset after the death of a friend who died in battle, and expressed his feelings through the poem. After writing it, he tossed it in the garbage! Another officer picked it up and sent it to some newspapers in England, where it was soon published.