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War Poetry - Words from 1915 transformed in 2012

This year my Yr10 English class studying War Poetry. I was trying to find a way to get them to think in a deeper way about young men going to war Here is the website we went to. Each student chose a soldier to create a profile for Twitter. @http://pap-to-pass.org/

I felt that as the days went on the students started to think about the conditions young men faced during WW1. We looked at Poems by Wilfred Owen, they had studied Pachendale in Social Studies and we had a visit from Poet Kate McColl who has written poems about NZ soldiers fighting at Pachendale. Another example of deeper thinking was shown in the class essays on a War Poem.

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