V4 - Poetry reader - The Irish Conflict

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Poetry Reader - The Irish Conflict

Important

Poetry project:

- 9 March = Assignment 1: Film -  see page 41 = on paper this week

- 23 March = Writing test: creative task related to poetry reader

- TW3 = Oral exam related to poetry reader - see page 41

> You need to hand in all the assignments and tasks from the Poetry reader when you take your oral exam, it will be part of your final grade.

What do you know about the history between Ireland and Britain?

Today's Lesson

Learn about:

The Irish Conflict

The Irish Conflict

You have been reading about conflict in WW1.

> An important part of British history is the conflict between it and Ireland.

This dates back to centuries before, but came to a big explosion in 1916 called The Easter Rising

> Another big moment of conflict occured in 1920 called Bloody Sunday

> All of this happened in the name of the War of Independence 

> Ireland wanted to be independent from Britain. 

                                    Read more about Bloody Sunday in the next slide. 

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Bloody Sunday

You now now more about this terrible day in Irish (and British) history, however, there was another Bloody Sunday in this ongoing conflict. This happened on 30 January 1972.

The Irish band U2 wrote a song about this day and it's one of their most overtly political songs, its lyrics describe the horror felt by an observer of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, mainly focusing on the 1972 Bloody Sunday incident in Derry where British troops shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters. > Read more about it in the next slide + listen to the song. 

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What do you think about the song and it's topic?

The Irish Conflict - Assignment

You know more about the conflict due to the British occupation of Ireland and the War of Indepence that resulted from that. 

You will now answer questions about this ongoing conflict. 

Use the videos in the next slides and the Internet to help you. 

> Post your answers in Teams for next week

Finished!

You have finished today's lesson.

You worked on the Poetry Project

You have worked on the tasks 

and prepared for the tests by doing so

Well done!