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KS3 · Year 9 - Mastery · Term 3 - Conflict: Poetry and Modern Drama · Week 2
Pages: Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
Owen wrote from the Western Front (1917); the Latin tag ("It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country") is exposed as "the old Lie".
Lesson 1
What students do
Close read for simile ("like old beggars"), gas-attack syntax, broken sonnet form.
Task
Annotate form, imagery, structure.
Success criteria
Reads methods precisely.
Lesson 2
What students do
Discuss: is the poem propaganda in reverse, or testimony?
Task
Position yourself with evidence.
Success criteria
Weighs interpretations.
Lesson 3
What students do
Model: "Owen presents the futility of war which reflects his disillusionment with jingoistic propaganda."
Task
Draft three Y9-stem topic sentences.
Success criteria
Stems are conceptual.
Lesson 4
What students do
Analyse the drowning metaphor and trauma imagery.
Task
Analytical paragraph using terminology.
Success criteria
Uses precise terms.
Lesson 5
What students do
Draft a thesis on Owen's exposure of "the old Lie".
Task
Thesis + paragraph.
Success criteria
Thesis is conceptual.
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