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=//"So all day long the noise of battle rolled..."//= //Alfred, Lord Tennyson//

Welcome to the Year 11 Advanced English War and Heroism Poetry Anthology!!
(for a high ability, co-ed classroom)



This wiki has been created in order to explore the themes of war and heroism in a number of poems spanning across time. The focus of this unit will be learning how to engage in a detailed analysis of texts. Students will gain an understanding of how the ideas, forms and language of a text interact within the text and may affect those responding to it. Students will explore the themes and ideas within the poems and explore how context and values are reflected within them. They will consider how the poems present the concepts of war and heroism, and will also ponder on how the poems could be received differently by different audiences over time.

The themes of war and heroism appear to be universal; recognised across time and in different parts of the world. There is also a great variety of perspectives on war portrayed throughout these poems which enables students to gain a range of ideas and develop their own perspectives on the poems and the issues of war. This enables students to develop an understanding of the relationships between composer, responder, text and context, and allows them to create a considered and informed personal response to the poems.

This unit has been chosen for a Year 11 Stage 6 Advanced English class with a high ability level as many of the poems have been chosen in order to issue more challenging content to these students and to push them further. The activities in this unit will concentrate on higher order thinking skills in order to prepare these students for the challenges that await them in the Advanced English course in Year 12.

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