what is learning?

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What follows requires nothing more than hard work and effort…

What follows requires nothing more than hard work and effort…

learning is……natural

…spontaneous…normal

…unpredictable

…unnatural…planned

…abnormal…predictable

school is…

ww1 poetrytraditional approach involves reading and

analysis of poemsleading to critical essay

ww1 poetrytraditional approach

gives you…A poem that I have recently studied is Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred

Owen. Written in the time of the war, the reader expects a touching poem

about the bravery of the soldiers, but instead they get the complete opposite.

We think of deaths that occur in the war would be quick and painless a single

bullet, but in this poem Owen shows us that extremely slow and intense. . The

poem protests against the idea that is it “sweet and right to die for ones

country”; by bitterly describing one soldiers excruciating death as he got

caught in a gas attack during World War I. The imagery and word choice he uses

shocks us, but the soldiers are completely desensitised to these scenes, and

that is the touching bit part for us.

In this essay I will be telling my point of view of which poem is the best out of the two, “Dulce et decorum est” by Wilfred Owens or the poem “The Call” by Jessie Pope.Both poems were written during and response to the Great War. “Dulce et Decorum Est” is about the reality of the Great War not the lies about how good it was unlike Jessie Pope wrote. Wilfred Owens was in the British Army and wrote what he saw. He came up with “Dulce et Decorum Est” when he was in Craiglockhart war hospital after he was diagnosed with shell shock fighting for

ww1 poetryTime Detectives

Approach

CfE: Time Detectives

Case 01

Time Detectives

• Investigate the clues…

• Make the connections…

• Solve the mystery…

What You’ve To Do…

• You’ll be given lots of different pieces of evidence… but very little information about them.

• You will need to find out what each thing is… and then work out how they all link together.

Solve The Mystery…

• Why was this changed?

• "what minute-bells for these who die so fast"

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Approach

puzzle it out…

ww1 poetryTime Detectives

Approach

solo taxonomypedagogy warning!

ww1 poetrystart from a position of

knowing nothing…

solo prestructural

ww1 poetrystarting to learn

solo unistructural

ww1 poetryknowing several things

solo multistructural

ww1 poetryfinding links

solo relational

ww1 poetryhypothesising

solo extended abstract

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shhh…

“It’s the notes you don’t play that matter…”

Miles Davis1926-1991

What is beauty? What do you think?

Examples

• Write down the names of FIVE people that you consider beautiful

• Write down the names of FIVE people you think are not beautiful

Examples

• Write down the names of FIVE places that you consider beautiful

• Write down the names of FIVE places you think are an eyesore

Question

• Is beauty only skin deep?

• What other kinds of beauty can there be?

• What is more important: looks or personality?

Definition

• TASK: Write a definition of what beauty means to you.

• Use your examples to try and illustrate this.

• Can you explain why different people consider different things are beautiful?

what is beauty

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly2vp2tLH8s

Task: http://secondyear.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/your-mission/

"We aren't stuck with the things we have now. We can make new things, better

things. And it doesn't take many people to

do it..."

- John Siracusawriting about Steve Jobs

It takes one...

you

you

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