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Year 9

Considering the relationship between the poetry of WW1 and the context

I can explain how the experience of World War One might be reflected in the poetry of the time.

New
New
Year 9

Considering the relationship between the poetry of WW1 and the context

I can explain how the experience of World War One might be reflected in the poetry of the time.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Men from every part of the British Empire fought in the war.
  2. War poetry is not exclusively written by those who fought during a war.
  3. During the First World War, governments relied on patriotism and propaganda to get people to enlist.
  4. Conditions for soldiers during the war were extremely gruelling and taxed them physically, mentally and emotionally.

Common misconception

That only men from England fought for Britain.

Men from all over the British Empire fought for Britain.

Keywords

  • Patriotic - Being patriotic means showing love and support for your country.

  • Empire - An Empire is a group of countries ruled by a single person, government or country, e.g. The Roman Empire.

  • Propaganda - Propaganda is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.

  • Censorship - The act of preventing something from being seen or made available to the public for political reasons is known as censorship.

  • Provocative - Something provocative is deliberately designed to cause anger or another strong emotion.

You might want to spend more time thinking about how people had widely different experiences of World War One depending on their circumstances.
Teacher tip

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Putting a quotation inside your own sentence, rather than putting it in the middle of a page and then commenting on it, is known as it.
Correct Answer: embedding, Embedding
Q2.
Who were Germany's allies during WW1?
Russia
Britain
Correct answer: Ottoman Empire
Correct answer: Austria-Hungary
Q3.
What is the literary technique called where the weather reflects the mood?
Correct answer: Pathetic fallacy
Anaphora
Enjambment
Cyclical structure
Q4.
Which of the following is a metaphor?
Correct answer: Juliet is the sun.
Your eyes are like stars.
Your eyes dance in the moonlight.
Q5.
Which of the following is an example of utilising a caesura?
'In Flanders fields the poppies blow'
Correct answer: 'We are the Dead. Short days ago'
'Scarce heard amid the guns below.'
Q6.
Which of the following is WW1 also known as?
The Worst War
Correct answer: The Great War
The Best War
The Only War

6 Questions

Q1.
A group of countries ruled by a single person, government or country is known as an .
Correct Answer: Empire, empire
Q2.
How many soldiers from the British Empire died in WW1 in total?
500,000
1 million
Correct answer: 8.5 million
100 million
Q3.
Roughly, how many poems were written about WW1?
Around 20
Correct answer: Around 2,000
Around 2 million
Q4.
How would men have likely felt in the trenches?
Safe
Correct answer: Tense
Correct answer: Uncomfortable
Content
Q5.
Which of the following are potential reasons for the government censoring soldiers' letters?
They contained profanity
Correct answer: They might have contained military secrets
Correct answer: They might have hurt morale in England
They might have contained explicit material
Q6.
What does it mean to be provocative?
To cause embarrassment
To only cause anger
Correct answer: To cause a strong emotion