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Anthem for Doomed Youth
Starter (5 minutes) Write down your own definition for the word ‘anthem’. IN SILENCE PLEASE
Slide2Definitions
Noun: A rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlDoon91vZk
As you’re listening, jot down in the box what you think it is about. What’s the tone..? Happy, sad..?
Written in 1917
Slide3How does Owen’s poem differ from your understanding of ‘anthem’?
What point is Owen making?
Slide4Quiet Reading
Slide5Conflict Poetry
Learning Objective: To understand the literary importance of WW1
Learning Objective: To move from grisly tales to conflict poetry.
Slide6Descriptive free writing
For a descriptive piece of writing, you need to work through the five senses
Free writing means writing continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling and grammar.
Slide7Write from the perspective of a WW1 soldier in the trenches.
Slide8Wilfred Owen
Write down 5 bullet points about Wilfred Owen/his life from the articleTo extend, find 2 more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4cdRgIcB8
Slide9Propaganda
Slide10What point is Owen making?
Which lines suggest this poem is anti-jingoistic?
Jingoism
: propaganda advertising the glory of war.
Slide11Three main things to talk about in this essay…
The exhaustion and state of the soldiers/army
The gas attack and dying man
The anti-jingoistic sentiment.
Slide12Write down the following words and their definitions (you can use your phones for finding definitions)
SimileAlliteration MetaphorCaesuraPresent participleExclamatory toneOxymoronFind an example of each of these in the poem.Ext: Can you also find horror imagery?Ext: Can you also find anti-jingoistic/anti-propaganda lines?
Owen makes lots of new words through a process known as compounding, (joining words with a hyphen) why?
Slide13How does Owen present the horrors of war in ‘Dulce et Decorum est?’
An introduction should DESCRIBE what is happening in the poem and
L
ink
B
ack to the words of the
Q
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Topic sentence should be like a mini introduction,
describing
your point.
Author x uses technique y for purpose z
Slide1415 minutes to work in pairs annotating the poem, looking out for the technical terms listed as well as any more you can spot.
Remember: any linguistic device spotted must be attributed to an effect. What effect does this device prompt? How does the language make the reader feel something?
Slide15Recap quiz – in exercise books
Why was World War One so significant for poetry (and everything!)Where did Wilfred Owen write his poetry?What is an orison?What is propaganda?How would you define ‘jingoism’?Why was Wilfred Own against propaganda?What is alliteration?What is a simile? Ext: Why is humanising guns and dehumanising people effective in war poetry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4cdRgIcB8
Slide16How does Owen show the pity of war?
Intro – what the poem is about, who Owen is.
Para 1 – Point, Evidence, Analysis.
‘Author X uses technique Y [quote] to produce effect Z’
Eg
: Wilfred Owen uses present participles in ‘guttering, choking, drowning’ to give the impression that the image of the dying man struggling for life lives with him in the present.
Slide17Free-write about the process of contracting hypothermia
Opening sentence:
“I felt the cold creeping over my body…”
Slide18Conflict Poetry
Learning Objective: To understand the literary importance of WW1
Learning Objective: To move from grisly tales to conflict poetry.
Slide1910 mins
Slide20Quiet Reading
Slide21Read the article about women in the WW1 effort and write down 5 important bullet points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6RuNpfQJQ
Slide22Over to you!
You have seen a great many war poems now!
I will give you
7
minutes to underline the key terms of the question and annotate the poem with any linguistic devices.
Slide23Quiet Reading
Slide24Three main things to talk about in this essay…
The exhaustion and state of the soldiers/army
The gas attack and dying man
The anti-jingoistic sentiment.