Remembrance Day - teaching resource

Remembrance Day

This English teaching resource focuses on information retrieval skills and emotive language in poetry all based around the theme of Remembrance Day. Content includes:

• What is Remembrance Day explanation
• The significance of the two-minute silence
• A comprehension / information retrieval task with an accompanying worksheet
• The symbol of the poppy and a link to an accompanying short video
• An 'In Flanders Fields' emotive writing task with an accompanying worksheet
• Information about the 2014 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' art installation at the Tower of London with an accompanying group task
• Link to a short video about the making of the ceramic poppies for the 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' art installation

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