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In ACES paragraphs: Explain how the opinions of WWI are depicted through the poetry and academic articles. Then form your own opinion about the war based on what you have read. Did patriotism justify a soldier’s involvement the war? *I HAVE UPLOADED THE ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU TO PREVIEW*

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English 4 Unit 5 Portfolio Due Unit 5 Lesson 6 Directions: 1. Read the two following poems and corresponding articles that follow 2. Use the template at the end to explain how these two writers show different opinions about WWI Rupert Brooke Virginia Woolf The Times Literary Supplement. (Aug. 8, 1918): p371. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1979. From Literature Resource Center. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1979 Gale Research, COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale, Cengage Learning [However] sunburnt and slap-dash he might choose to appear at any particular moment, no one could know [Brooke] even slightly, without seeing that he was not only very sincere, but passionately in earnest about the things he cared for. In particular, he cared for literature and the art of writing as seriously as it is possible to care for them. He had read everything and he had read it from the point of view of a working writer. ... In discussing the work of living writers he gave you the impression that he had the poem or the story before his eyes in a concrete shape, and his judgments were not only very definite but had a freedom and a reality which mark the criticism of those who are themselves working in the same art. You felt that to him literature was not dead nor of the past, but a thing now in process of construction by people many of whom were his friends; and that knowledge, skill, and, above all, unceasing hard work were required of those who attempt to make it. To work hard, much harder than most writers think it necessary, was an injunction of his that remains in memory from a chaos of such discussions.... [Instead] of framing any opinion as to the merit of his verses we recall merely the curiosity of watching him finding his adjectives, and a vague conception that he was somehow a mixture of scholar and man of action, and that his poetry was the brilliant by-product of energies not yet turned upon their object. It may seem strange, now that he is famous as a poet, how little it seemed to matter in those days whether he wrote poetry or not. It is proof perhaps of the exciting variety of his gifts and of the immediate impression he made of a being so complete and remarkable in himself that it was sufficient to think of him merely as Rupert Brooke. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Woolf, Virginia. "Rupert Brooke." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Dedria Bryfonski, vol. 2, Gale, 1979. Literature Resource Center, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1420011500/LitRC?u=j101912100&sid=LitRC&xid=4a0c9b01 . Accessed 18 Mar. 2019. Originally published in The Times Literary Supplement, 8 Aug. 1918, p. 371. Whizz-bangs and trench: a century ago, a group of writers called the war poets captured the misery of World War I Junior Scholastic/Current Events. (Mar. 18, 2013) Lexile Measure: 1070L. COPYRIGHT 2013 Scholastic, Inc. What is war like? Each war has its own unique horrors. For the soldiers of World War I (1914-1918), they included poison gas, barbed wire, and charging across no-man's-land into the teeth of machine gun fire. Then there were the trenches, long ditches in battlefields where soldiers lived for weeks and months at a time, exposed to the elements and enemy fire and death. Wilfred Owen, a British officer fighting in France, captured the panic of diving into a trench to escape an enemy bombardment in his poem "The Sentry." Owen and Sassoon were just two of the many writers who chronicled the fighting and dying of World War I in verse. In the century since, our view of that conflict has been shaped by the haunted accounts of these soldiers, known as the War Poets. Doomed Youth Europeans at the time called World War I the Great War. "Never had so many nations taken up arms at a single time," write historians Jay Winter and Blaine Baggett. "Never had the battlefield been so vast.... Never had the fighting been so gruesome." The war pitted the Allies--which included Great Britain, Russia, France, and eventually the U.S.--against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey. The war began in July 1914, then engulfed the continent when Germany invaded France and Belgium in August. As Great Britain joined the conflict, eager young British recruits were told that they'd be home by Christmas. Instead, the war settled into a long, bloody stalemate. Along the Western Front, the two sides faced each other in a series of trenches that ran almost continuously through Belgium and France. Clashes like the Battle of the Somme in 1916--which resulted in more than 1 million casualties--lasted for months. Yet the battle line changed very slowly, and the war dragged on. Like other young Britons, Owen believed it was his patriotic duty to join the army. But after he saw trench warfare, his poems began to show how it haunted its warriors--sometimes literally. Owen became angry about what he saw as the war's futility, and the sacrifice of so many young men. In April 1917, the U.S. entered the war on the side of the Allies. Gradually, the war began to break in the Allies' favor. On November 11, 1918, Germany signed the Armistice (truce), accepting defeat. The war had cost the Allies more than 5 million men, including more than 300,000 American casualties; the Central Powers had 3.5 million. A week before, Owen had been killed leading a charge in northern France. The bells celebrating the Armistice were ringing in Shrewsbury, his hometown, when his parents received the telegram with word of his death. The scars of the Great War endured. In years to come, the War Poets would remind the world that Owen and other fallen soldiers must be remembered. Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition) Brown, Bryan. "Whizz-bangs and trench: a century ago, a group of writers called the war poets captured the misery of World War I." Junior Scholastic/Current Events, 18 Mar. 2013, p. 12+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A323037871/OVIC?u=j101912100&sid=OVIC&xid=76366572 . Accessed 18 Mar. 2019. Turn in ONLY this written outline to your teacher: The two poems illustrate a difference of opinion regarding WWI. Based on your own evaluation of the poems and the articles, what is your opinion? 1. In ACES paragraphs: Explain how the opinions of WWI are depicted through the poetry and academic articles. Then form your own opinion about the war based on what you have read. Did patriotism justify a soldier’s involvement the war? • Hook sentence- • Information sentence- • Information sentence- • Thesis statement sentence(s) with your opinion- 2. Choose a poet to agree with and add to your claim with two supporting reasons AC- text support can come from poems and articles—you must use all sources (poems and articles) ES- AC- text support can come from poems and articles—you must use all sources ES- 3. Next, provide one counter-claim (the other side of the argument) AC- text support can come from poems and articles—you must use all sources ES- 4. Provide a concluding statement that calls the audience to take action (even if it simply involves becoming more informed). AC- text support can come from poems and articles—you must use all sources ES-
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Topic: Two poems and how the two writers show different opinions about WWI.
Thesis statement: The poems by Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen represent different
views of the writer about World War II. The academic articles also give detailed accounts of the
situation of the war. Rupert Brooke had an unshaken opinion about the war (Brooke,1933).
Wilfred Owen’s poem depicts an unwavering opinion on World War I. The poet reveals the
war as horrific, he is horrified by what he sees in the battlefields. The soldiers had reasons for
participating in the war. One of the reasons in both cases was their patriotism to their countries. I
support Owens opinion on World War I. The war poet uses the last stanza of his poem to point
out the vagueness in the entire lethal war. According to Owen, there were many “…incurable
sores on innocent tongues” (In Ward, 1997). My claim about the first World War is that it was
the worst mistake such a larger number of governments made. The historical reason for the start
of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by a
Serbian terrorist group. On my counterargument, the war led to a peaceful period with no much
rivalry thereafter. For instance, Germany “…signed the Armistice accepting defeat” and the
latter led to peaceful coexistence between the rival nations (Deacon, 2015). Conclusively, it is
good to be patriotic to one’s country. However, the decisions one makes in life has
consequences. Regardless of the driving force to decision-making, one should be conscious of
the effects. For instance, Owen was very eager to join a war that he hated very much later. Owen
died in the war according to Deacon, (2015).
A. Explain how the opinions of WWI are depicted through the poetry and academic articles.
B. Then form your own opinion about the war based on what you have read. Did patriotism
justify a soldier’s involvement the war?
C. Choose a poet to agree with and add to your claim with two supporting reasons
D. Next, provide one counter-c...


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