12EN+SHD+2012



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CLOSE READING In Week 3 of Term One we will begin to focus on the skills we have and need to develop to expertly close read unfamiliar texts This is: In Term 1, we will also complete an in-depth study of a range of poems written by Alistair Te Ariki-Campbell, about the NZ solidiers who fought during WW1, in the Gallipoli campaign. Following are the documents that will be used in class during the study of close reading, and the poetry of Alistair Te Ariki-Campbell.
 * something highly useful when reading any type of text
 * something that you will rely on during each text study we do this year
 * something that is assessed throughout the year, including in the external NCEA examinations when attempting Achievement Standard 91100

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//** Interested in learning more about the poets who wrote about war? We start with a brief look at __Dulce et Decorum est__, a very famous work by Wilfred Owen, a WW1 poet. Read on for further details and links about him. **// __ Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 __

From the age of nineteen Wilfred Owen wanted to be a poet and immersed himself in poetry, being especially impressed by Keats and Shelley. He wrote almost no poetry of importance until he saw action in France in 1917. Teaching in continental Europe in 1915, Owen visited a hospital and became acquainted with many of the war's wounded. Deeply affected by these visits and feeling pressured by the propaganda to become a soldier, the young 22 year old Owen volunteered to Enlist in the British Army on 21st October 1915. He escaped bullets until the last week of the war, but he saw a good deal of front-line action: he was blown up, concussed and suffered shell-shock.

At a psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh, he met well known poet and war hero, Siegfried Sassoon, who inspired him to develop his war poetry.

Owen was injured in March 1917 and sent home; he was fit for duty in August, 1918, and returned to the front where he was killed one week before the war ended. The bells were ringing on November 11, 1918, in Shrewsbury, England, to celebrate the Armistice when the doorbell rang at his parent's home, bringing them the telegram informing them their son was dead.

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."

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**Macbeth by William Shakespeare **



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The screenplay for the film __Into the Wild__ was written by Sean Penn (who also directed the film), and inspired by the article __Death of an Innocent__ by journalist Jon Krakauer. Krakauer wrote about the short life and tragic death of the real Christopher McCandless, and Sean Penn's screenplay follows this version of his story faithfully.