V4B 14-3-2025 1e en 2e les

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Please sit with your group!

You need: reader, pen, notebook, laptop

Welcome! 

Lesson goals (2 lessons!)

- You will know more about the Troubles (Northern Ireland)

- You will have analysed a song and a poem

- You will know what to expect at your oral exams

Today's 2 lessons

1. The Troubles & the song by U2 (20 mins)
2. Lyrics assignment (15 mins)
3. Information about your oral exams (10 mins)
4. Work on your poem / Analyse: "My Lai" (20-30 mins)
5. Round off together

The Irish Conflict

What have you learned about
the Irish conflict?

The Troubles, Northern Ireland

- Violent sectarian conflict, from about 1968 to 1998 

- between Protestant unionists (loyalists), who wanted                 to remain part of the UK, and Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted to join the Republic of Ireland.

- Started in Londonderry in 1968, with a protest turned violent

- The conflict left 3,600 dead, 30,000 injured

Timeline

1916: Easter Rising, Irish rebellion, fight for an Irish Republic

1919-1921: Irish War of Independence (IRA)

         1920, 21 Nov: Bloody Sunday, Dublin

1922-1923: Irish Civil War

1949: Republic of Ireland

1968-1998: The Troubles, Northern Ireland

         1972, 30 Jan: Bloody Sunday Londonderry, Derry

1998: Good Friday Agreement

Checking together: task 8

Poetry reader, p.18

Afterwards, we will watch an interview with Bono, U2 lead singer, about "Sunday bloody Sunday" (0:00-5:30)

> Was the song meant to support the fight for independence? Why (not)?

> What does Bono say about division?

> Was the song meant to support the fight for independence? Why (not)?

> What does Bono say about division?

What are your thoughts / feelings about the song and its topic?

Lyrics assignment

- handout: answer questions about the song (no laptops)

Finished? 

- Read "My Lai" p.19

- Do task 9, p.20

Today's 2 lessons

1. The Troubles & the song by U2 (20 mins)
2. Lyrics assignment (15 mins)
3. Information about your oral exams (10 mins)
4. Work on your poem / Analyse: "My Lai" (20-30 mins)
5. Round off together

Group conversation: practicalities

- groups of 4: 20 minutes

- groups of 3: 15 minutes

- schedule: Thursday or Friday during test week, discuss with your group and make a choice today

- individual grade

- 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

- you cannot use your reader and/or bring notes

Group conversation: what is expected (1)

Each student:

1. recites their own poem and explains which style figures they used & why
2. explains what the message is of their poem and how that becomes clear in the actual poem
3. discusses one of the poems from the reader, gives their opinion and mentions 2 style figures + explanation (not the last poem)
4. can get additional questions from the teacher

Group conversation: what is expected (2)

As a group, make sure everyone gets the same amount of time

Practise your own part at home and time it! (approx. 4 minutes)

Practise reading your own poem and bring it to the exam

Discuss with your group:

- When to schedule the exam

& if time:

- Who will discuss which poem

- Also: go through your readers together 

to check if they're complete

Vietnam War 1955-1975

The Vietnam War

- Started as a struggle for independence from French colonial rule and escalated into a Cold War confrontation.

- North Vietnam and their allies (communist) against South Vietnam and their allies (anti-communist). 

- More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed, more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. 

- The war ended with the fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.

- Started as a struggle for independence from French colonial rule and escalated into a Cold War confrontation between international communism and free-market democracy. 

My Lai Massacre

- 16 March 1968

- More than 500 villagers were brutally killed by American soldiers

- 'Most notorious war crime in modern American military history'

- First pictures published end of 1969, spurred on anti-war movement

- Keith Bosley, British poet, wrote his poem 'My Lai' as a reaction to a picture in Newsweek in November 1969

Your own poem:

1. Finish / make alterations

2. Think about:

- which style figures, why, what is the effect?

- what is the message of your poem and how does it become clear?

Poetry reader:

1. Read 'My Lai' (p.19)

2. Do task 9 (p.20)

Well done! You...

- know more about the Troubles (Northern Ireland)

- have analysed a song and a poem

- know what to expect at your oral exams