V4B 7-3-2025 45 min 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 have worked on the poetry project

- You will have analysed two WWI poems

- You will have successfully worked in groups

Today's 2 lessons

1. Siegfried Sassoon (10 mins)
2. Analyse: "Suicide in the Trenches", task 4 (15 mins)
3. Write a metaphor (15 mins)
4. Analyse: "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (30 mins)
5. Homework
6. Round off together

Video: Siegfried Sassoon (5 mins)

The poet who wrote "Suicide in the Trenches"

Take notes!

You will be asked to submit 3-5

facts about his life / character

A few words...

1. Jingoism           - extreem patriottisme
2. Cosiness           - gezelligheid
3. Cowardice        - lafheid
4. Bravery              - dapperheid
5. Convalescing  - herstellend
6. Reckless            - roekeloos

Discuss & answer as a group:
3-5 facts about Sassoon's
life / character

Youth: seems upper-class

(private tutor, Cambridge, hunting, cricket, socializing, writing)

Enlisted in 1914 (28), officer training

Desperate to be at the front

Writing becomes darker

As an officer, he was brave and inspired his men. He is awarded the Military Cross.

Gets wounded and spends time in an officers' hospital. When he goes back to France, he becomes more reckless.

A friend mentions mental problems

What happens afterwards?

After getting wounded a second time, Sassoon writes an open letter which is published in The Times, protesting against the war. 

This act  could have been considered treason, but he avoids punishment and is sent to a mental hospital in Scotland instead, to be treated for shell shock. 

After the war, he continues to write both prose and poetry. He dies in 1967.

Homework for today: task 4

"Suicide in the Trenches" (Siegfried Sassoon)

We will listen to the poem

& then go through the answers together

Discussing the answers

2-3 minutes to discuss with your group

I will ask 1 person per group

Poetic devices

Writing a simile or metaphor

The birds sounded like playing children

A geode, sparkly as a brain full of daydreams

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars

(Raymond Chandler)

- work in pairs

- choose 3 words you associate with war / conflict

- use the 3 steps to make a simile!

Please sit with your group!

You need: reader, pen, notebook

Today's 2 lessons

1. Siegfried Sassoon (10 mins)
2. Analyse: "Suicide in the Trenches", task 4 (15 mins)
3. Write a metaphor (15 mins)
4. Analyse: "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (30 mins)
5. Homework
6. Round off together

Video: Wilfred Owen

0:00 - 3:52

Wilfred Owen:
what have you heard?

Wilfred Owen

• English soldier and one of the leading poets of WWI
• Learned to care for people as a vicar's assistant
• Joined the army in 1917
• Spent some time at a mental hospital because of shell shock, where he   met Siegfried Sassoon
• Wrote many letters to his mother
• Was killed in action on November 4, 1918, just one week before the end   of  the war. He was 25 years old.
  

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Anthem = a song, often sung on a special occasion, that has special importance for a particular group of people. A national anthem (een hymne)

What do you think of when you read the title of this poem?

What do you think of when you read the title:
Anthem for Doomed Youth?

Analyse the poem

Work with your poetry group

 Go to reader page 11

Answer the questions in English

Also answer question 6 on page 13!

We will discuss the answers together (if there's enough time)

Well done!

- You have worked on the poetry project

- You have analysed two WWI poems

- You have successfully worked in groups

Homework for Monday...

Do task 8, page 18

What do you think of when you read the title: Suicide in the Trenches

Analyse the poem

Activity: Answer per team

- Sit in your groups 

- Go to pages 12-13 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 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?

What to expect in period 3:

Poetry, creative writing, speaking

- 3 March: creative writing test (3x)

- During this period: writing assignment in class (mandatory)

- Week 13 (testweek): group conversation (15-20 mins, 3x)

- End of period: hand in (completed) poetry reader (mandatory)

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 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 3/4 about all of the above