Remembrance Day: War Poets and Poems

This resource contains a fully editable, 28 slide PowerPoint presentation and a set of accompanying worksheets on war poets and war poetry. The war poems provide an insight into the lives, experiences and feelings of people during World Wars. The worksheets contain a variety of reflective tasks linked to the PowerPoint resource. There are three worksheets and a copy of all the war poems that are featured in the presentation.

The presentation includes the following poets and poems:

‘For the Fallen’ by Robert Binyon
‘My Boy Jack’ by Rudyard Kipling
‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke
‘In Flanders Field’ by John McCrae
‘We Shall Keep The Faith’ by Moina Michael
‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ by Wilfred Owen
‘The Green Fields of 'France’ by John McDermott

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This is a fully editable, informative and poignant 85-slide PowerPoint presentation. It could be used for an assembly or series of assemblies leading up to, and on, Remembrance Day or for use with a tutor group.

The presentation focuses on:

What is Remembrance Day?
World War 1
Armistice Day
Remembrance Day
The Poppy
The British Legion
How those soldiers who gave their lives are remembered

The presentation contains hyperlinks to areas of interest.

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This is a 65 slide presentation designed to be used for the 2 minutes silence. It begins with the Last Post and ends with the Reveille and has been set to play automatically. The powerful and poignant images have been carefully selected and show scenes of:

World War 1
World War 2
Current soldiers in the Armed Forces
War Graves
War memorials

This slide show will help pupils who find it difficult to focus during the two minutes silence to understand why we have Remembrance Day and what was like for both the soldiers on the front line and their families back home.

The slides could also be used for follow-up work with the pupils to provoke discussion and provide a stimulus for writing activities and for display purposes.

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