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In this short video, artist Laura Henry created this piece to show how the first portable typewriter played an integral part in the human aspect of World War One. She found letters that had been written by soldiers from the trenches, who were writing poetry whilst the noise and horror of war surrounded them. She used pen and dipping ink to mimic the inky type.
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Article posted August 18, 2007 at 02:01 AM GMT0 •
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Rebecca wrote an interesting piece of formal writing about the costs of bottled water. I have added some shocking statistics below that you might find interesting.
". . . if you choose to get your recommended eight glasses a day from bottled water, you could spend up to $1,400 annually. The same amount of tap water would cost about 49 cents."
In Praise of Tap Water
NYTimes August 2, 2007
"The United States is the world's largest consumer of bottled water, purchasing 37 billion bottles in 2005. Our daily bottled water habit is bad for people and bad for the environment."
- foodandwaterwatch.org
Makes you think before you drink!
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Article posted August 8, 2007 at 09:31 AM GMT0 •
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Read this poem by Rupert Brook and we will discuss it in class.
The Soldier
by Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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This post is for the Year 11 students who are going to write an essay on Wilfred Owen. When you write your essay you will have to write about two poems. Have a look at the introduction below and tell me your thoughts.
In Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and Tennyson’s ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, both poets show clear attitudes to war. Owen’s poem centres around an horrific gas attack he suffered with a group of soldiers so tired they were ‘drunk with fatigue’. Owen leaves us in no doubt his attitude is anti-war but Tennyson’s poem is more generally thought to portray war as glorious and soldiers as heroes, ‘When can their glory fade?’ yet I believe that Tennyson shows an attitude that is far closer to Owen than might at first be realised…’
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1. What are the major themes that Owen explores in this poem?
2. Make a list of the similes used in this poem. Why has he used so many?
3. Explain the impact of the use of words such as “hoots” and “boots” - (onomatopoeia)
4. What devices does Owen use to make the gas attack feel so realistic?
5. Owen wanted the people at home to understand the reality of the soldier’s experience in World War One. Do you feel he succeeded?
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