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- Year 8- Poetry of the Great War

- Topic 5: The Soldier’s Depression

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Today’s learning objective is...

LO: To understand the effect of Sassoon’s ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ on the reader.

Last lesson: To understand the key events in Sassoon’s ‘Suicide in the Trenches’

Learning Objective: To understand the effect of Sassoon’s ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ on the reader.

Know the soldier’s change in emotion.

Evaluate the effect of the poem

on the reader.

Analyse the metaphor used to show this change

in emotion.

Steps to Success

LO: Know the soldier’s change in emotion.

I knew a simple soldier boyWho grinned at life in empty joy,

Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,

And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,

With crumps and lice and lack of rum,

He put a bullet through his brain.No one spoke of him again.The soldier is described as ‘cowed and glum’. This might mean...

The soldier ‘grinned at life’, ‘slept soundly’ and ‘whistled early’. This might mean...

Emotion =

Emotion =

Learning Objective: To understand the effect of Sassoon’s ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ on the reader.

Know the soldier’s change in emotion.

Steps to Success

LO: Analyse the metaphor used to show this change in emotion.

Tenor Vehicle GroundWhat does this tell you about the person?

The thing you are talking about.

The thing you are comparing it to.

What they have in common.

Heart

Eyes

Metaphor – The Seasons

Stanza 1? (the ‘larks’) Stanza 2? (‘winter trenches’)

SPRING WINTER

LO: Analyse the metaphor used to show this change in emotion.

Tenor Vehicle Ground

What does this tell you about the soldier?

Is there any other

evidence to back this up?

The thing you are talking about.

The thing you are comparing it to.

What they have in common.

Soldier in stanza 1

Soldier in stanza 2

Learning Objective: To understand the effect of Sassoon’s ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ on the reader.

Know the soldier’s change in emotion.

Analyse the metaphor used to show this change

in emotion.

Steps to Success

Success Criteria: What effect does the poem have on the reader?

Success Criteria:

L7: You have begun to develop an appreciation of how particular techniques and devices achieve certain effects on the reader.

L6: You have clearly identified the effect on the reader, with some explicit explanation of how that effect has been created.

L5: You have shown a general awareness of the effect on the reader, with some – often limited – explanation.

L4: You have made a simple comment on the overall effect on the reader.

LO: Evaluate the effect of the poem on the reader.

What effect does Sassoon’s poem, ‘Suicide in the Trenches’, have on the reader?

Point: Sassoon’s poem, ‘Suicide in the Trenches’, makes the reader feel _________ because...

Evidence: Sassoon does this by...

Explanation: This effects the reader because...

Link: The poet might have done this because...

Peer Assessment

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LO: Evaluate the effect of the poem on the reader.

Point:

Evidence:

Explanation:

Link:

Self Assessment

I think I have got a level __ because...

To improve my work, I could...

What effect does Sassoon’s poem, ‘Suicide in the Trenches’, have on the reader?

Learning Objective: To understand the effect of Sassoon’s ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ on the reader.

Know the soldier’s change in emotion.

LO: Evaluate the effect of the poem

on the reader.

Analyse the metaphor used to show this change

in emotion.

Steps to Success