V4C - P3 - Week 2 - Lesson 2-3 - Poetry reader - Wilfred Owen

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Poetry Reader - Wilfred Owen

Lesson goals

- You will have worked on the poetry project

- You will have analysed a WWI poem

- You will have successfully worked in groups

- You will have practised your writing skills

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. 

Today's Lesson

Wilfred Owen

Analyse Poetry:

'Anthem for Doomed Youth' 

What do you need to do?

• Go through the reader and do the tasks (I will tell you  what to do and when). You need to hand everything in.
• Read the War poems and analyse them using the glossary
• Decide which poem is your favourite and why
• Take the writing test
• Write a poem using your new acquired knowledge
• Oral exam in groups of four about all of the above

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

Activity: Answer per team

- Sit in your groups 

- Go to page 11 in the reader

- Answer the questions in English

- Make sure everyone participates

After each round one person in your group will be randomly selected to answer for the entire group, so BE PREPARED :-)

Evaluation time

What effect did the random selection to answer the question have on you?

What was your role in the group?

Which personal qualities were helpful to be successful?

What grade would you give yourself for your work ethic during the activity?

Writing

> Choose a historical figure and write a diary entry pretending to be them. 

> Make sure you describe an important event they were a part of or connected to. 

Criteria: 

- Write in English

- Write at least 150 words

- Do not mention who you chose, someone else needs to guess after reading it. 

Lesson goals

- You have worked on the poetry project

- You have analysed a WWI poem

- You have successfully worked in groups

- You have practised your writing skills

Well done!