Commemorating Anzac through engaging learning

English Stage 5

Overview

Soldiers sitting in the shade with a Red Cross box in front of them.

The first field dressing station of the 7th Battalion, AIF, Gallipoli, Turkey 25 April 1915

Using the documentary Archdukes, Cynicism and World War I: Crash Course World History #36, students analyse the techniques documentary makers use to engage their audience. Students write an analysis of two moments in the documentary when Green uses humour as a way of engaging his audience.

Students use the texts Archdukes, Cynicism and World War I: Crash Course World History #36, The Soldier by Rupert Brooke and The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon to examine ways in which writers were influenced by the events of the First World War. Students write a response explaining influences on writers.

Links

  1. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H15233/
  2. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/A05534/
  3. https://youtu.be/_XPZQ0LAlR4
  4. http://www.allreadable.com/327e7Gt