In deze les zitten 41 slides, met interactieve quizzen, tekstslides en 3 videos.
Lesduur is: 80 min
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Dulce et Decorum Est
Havo 5 Literature
Slide 1 - Tekstslide
About the author
Wilfred Owen
1893 - 1918
Slide 2 - Tekstslide
What does the year of his death (1918) tell us?
Slide 3 - Open vraag
About the author
Owen died during WWI.
He had enlisted voluntarily.
Killed one week before the armistice (wapenstilstand) was signed.
Slide 4 - Tekstslide
About the author
One of many poets who has written about WWI.
Others were Brooke and Sassoon.
Slide 5 - Tekstslide
What do the following words mean?
knock-kneed
lame
fumbling
stumbling
plunges
gargling
gorgelend
grijpen
met x-benen
struikelend
kreupel
geklungel
Slide 6 - Sleepvraag
Let's read the poem
Slide 7 - Tekstslide
Slide 8 - Video
Let's continue
By answering the questions
Slide 9 - Tekstslide
1. What is the setting of this poem?
Slide 10 - Open vraag
What is the setting of this poem?
Time: WWI
Place: on a battlefield (back towards their camp)
Slide 11 - Tekstslide
What is a stanza?
Slide 12 - Open vraag
Describe in your own words what happens in the first two stanzas.
Slide 13 - Woordweb
Stanza 1 + 2
Tired soldiers are walking back to their camp from a battlefield. Suddenly they are attacked by their enemy who uses gas.
Slide 14 - Tekstslide
Describe in your own words what happens in the third stanza.
Slide 15 - Woordweb
Stanza 3
The soldiers put on their masks. One, however, fails to do so and is choking in the gas. (He isn’t dead yet, but he is dying!)
Slide 16 - Tekstslide
Hyperbole
The definition of hyperbole is “exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.” In practice, hyperbole is language that loads up on the drama.
Slide 17 - Tekstslide
Connect the figure of speech to the description.
A comparison without the words as or like.
A comparison with the words as or like.
A lifeless object is given a human trait.
personification
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
Slide 18 - Sleepvraag
Question 3
Examine the figure of speech (2x) in the first two lines.
Slide 19 - Tekstslide
What figure of speech is this? Metaphor or simile?
A
metaphor
B
simile
Slide 20 - Quizvraag
What two things are being compared?
Slide 21 - Woordweb
What image is created by these figures of speech?
Discuss this in pairs or groups of three
Slide 22 - Tekstslide
Correct answer:
The soldiers are a sorry sight, not the strong energetic men you normally associate with soldiers
Slide 23 - Tekstslide
What words show how tired the soldiers are? (Do not use the similes from previous question)
Slide 24 - Woordweb
Possible answers:
bent double (dubbel gevouwen; shows how they walk)
knock-kneed (x-benen)
trudge (sjokken)
men marched asleep
limped (strompelen)
lame (kreupel)
drunk with fatigue (vermoeidheid)
deaf (to the hoots)
Slide 25 - Tekstslide
What happens to the 'someone' in stanza three and why?
Discuss this in pairs or groups of three
Slide 26 - Tekstslide
Slide 27 - Video
Correct answer
The someone is dying because he couldn’t put on his gas mask in time.
Slide 28 - Tekstslide
Stanza 5 is one long 'if-sentence'. If you..., you wouldn't ...
Slide 29 - Tekstslide
Possible answer
If you also had nightmares about young men dying a horrible death,
(then) you wouldn’t tell new recruits it is honourable to die for your country.
Slide 30 - Tekstslide
Slide 31 - Video
Why is there a sentence in Latin? What is it used for in war?
Discuss in pairs or groups of three.
Slide 32 - Tekstslide
Correct answer
Why is there a sentence in Latin? It is an artistic way to say that it is honourable to die for your country, but the words the old Lie suggest otherwise.
What is it used for in the war? It is used as propaganda and to justify the many soldiers dying during the war.
Slide 33 - Tekstslide
What is Owen's intention in writing in this poem?
Slide 34 - Tekstslide
Correct answer
He wants to show the ugly face of the war.
Slide 35 - Tekstslide
What do you think of the words Owen uses?
Slide 36 - Woordweb
Why do you think he used this sort of language?
Slide 37 - Open vraag
What you have to understand (notes!)
He uses direct, graphic, explicit words when describing the state the soldiers are in and the way the ‘someone’ dies.
He does this to highlight the ugliness of the scenes he describes. It is like he wants to shock people.
Slide 38 - Tekstslide
In Owen's view, it is ... to die for your country. (1 word)
Slide 39 - Woordweb
9. Explain why.
Slide 40 - Open vraag
Correct answer
Horrific and devastating: there is no glory, no beauty or honour in the way young men die.