The Soldier and Dulce et Decorum Est

You have identified the language choices which build the mood and tone of these two poems.

Now create a collage of words and pictures for each poem which clearly illustrates the contrast between the two. Position the two side by side.The words and images do not have to directly relate to war but should convey mood and tone. Think of how you might use line and colour as well as the content of the images.

Now imagine that you have been asked to write a headline for a feature article exploring how World War 1 changed the way people thought and wrote about war. Add the headline to your page.

Persuasive techniques - a reminder

Persuasive techniques

In your script

In your delivery

·         Rhetorical questions ·         Language choices ·         Quotations ·         Emotive language (language to appeal to our emotions) ·         Colloquial language to connect with the audience ·         Use of personal pronouns (you and we) ·         Appeal to other senses (power point) ·         Appeal to reason and ability to think ·         Statistics ·         Underline words for emphasis

·         Sound confident ·         Hand gestures ·         Projecting your voice ·         Eye contact ·         Emphasis on particular words ·         Speed (slow down!) ·         Expression ·         Using your power point - refer to it! ·         Pause ·         Body language ·         Facial expression ·         Sound like you want to persuade the audience

Class notes on Lesson 7

·        What do you think Art “wanted” to achieve in writing Maus?

      Tell the world about his family's story

      Wanted people to know the reality of all that happened

      Impacts on family because of the war

      He wanted other people to hear his father’s story and let people know exactly what happened to Jews in the Holocaust. He also wanted to express how severe and horrifying the Holocaust actually was.  I think Art also wanted to portray his father as some sort of heroic figure to the public. Lastly, I think Artie wanted to inform the reader of our worlds past history from a very personal and not broad point of view

      I believe that Art want to show people what the holocaust did to people, thought out the book the reader is shown in small ways all the little things that Vladek now does because of what happen to him. I also believe that the book was a way of art coping with what was happening to his father, maybe it wasn’t for that reason to start with but I think it did turn into that.  

      He wanted to let people know his father’s story

      To share the stories that he heard as a child

      To show how Vladek changed through the events of the holocaust

      To understand in his own way the burden that Vladek has to bare due to his survival

      We believe Art didn’t actually know what he wanted to achieve he just wanted to write down his father’s story and have a physical copy of it. He didn’t expect any success from it.

      Just wanted to tell his father’s story

       Wanted people to see that the Jews weren’t just numbers but people

      Wanted his readers to see the brutality

       People to see what his father became after the Holocaust

      Portrayed characters as animals for a deeper understanding of how the Jews were seen by the Germans

       Wanted a personal account of the Holocaust

      Comic format for a wider audience

      He wanted his father’s story of his experiences and loses during the holocaust to be told. He wanted to make an easier way of understanding it by writing this book. Artie wanted to find out more about his father and he did it in the way of writing a book.

·        No matter what Art wanted, readers do take away messages from their reading of Maus.

           What were the main messages for you from your reading of the book?

      Vladek wasn't killed in Holocaust but a part of him died - personality changes

      Life long impacts

      Think of death as a whole - not affects it had on individual

      That sometimes luck is the key to survival.

      Family is sometimes the only necessity you need to survive.

      Life’s not over until your dead.

      That is possible for humans to be treated and seen as animals: this is seen as the cartoonist does not only draw each type as animals but shows how they were treated like animals.

      Every person interprets things, situations and scenarios in many different ways. (Some of the Nazi’s saw the Holocaust as very fair where the Jews saw it as slaughter for no reason.)

      To never forget what happened and to never repeat it.

      The holocaust was a brutal experience and everyone was affected in one way or another.

      Future generations where even affected by the holocaust.

      Traumatic experiences of the war caused people to change dramatically and alter their views on the world.

      In difficult situations you need to stay positive and be optimistic and it helps to be selfish and keep things for yourself to survive.

      Traumatic situations have a long lasting impact on people’s mental and physical health.

      Social classes don’t mean anything in wars. Vladek was at the top of the hierarchy before the Holocaust but during the Holocaust he was treated the same as any other Jew. He didn’t have any control over the Nazis decision.  

      Holocaust continues to impact the lives of people.

      War is a terrible thing

      Nazis were very cruel

      Jews were treated inhumanely

      It was more personal because it was actually someone’s story not just an overview of the holocaust. It showed us how much the story was set out in past and present to show how the holocaust changed them from before and after. The metaphor of mouse and cat made it seem how they were treated like animals.