Essential Knowledge: How students will be assessed on their knowledge:

• What is propaganda? • Daily Retrieval

• How can poetry be used as a form of propaganda to manipulate people? • Knowledge Quiz
• How do the poets use language to persuade men to join the army? • Answering Essential Questions
• How do the poems use language to create an impression of war? • PEE analytical writing
• How does Sassoon use satire and sarcasm in his deliberate language • Descriptive and non-fiction writing
choices to present his attitude towards war? • Pre-summative assessment – practice speech
• How does Owen use poetic techniques to show the horror of war? • Summative assessment
• What are the DAFOREST techniques and how can you use them for
deliberate effect in your writing?
• How do you structure a speech?
• How could Owen’s Disabled be used as a piece of anti-war propaganda?
• How does Vergissmeinnicht present the effect of war on civilians?
• How does McGough use satire to present war as absurd?
• What is Dharker saying about the power of words in ‘The Right Word’?
• How does the Belfast Confetti present war through its language, form and
structure?
• How can caesura be used for deliberate effect?
• What are some of the main facts about 9/11?
• What impact did 9/11 have on the civilians involved?
• How has 9/11 affected the culture of the Western world?
• What is the effect of some of Armitage’s language choices?
Knowledge to deepen understanding: Portable Knowledge:
 How could you psychoanalyse the effect the language would have had on  Contextual knowledge of WW1, WW2, Cold War and modern day conflict
the soldiers? such as 9/11
 How do the differing contexts of the writer’s influence the impression of  How writers are influenced by the context of the time they were writing
war they give?  What impact war and conflict has on society
 How does the context of a poet’s experience affect their attitude to war?  How to annotate a poem
 How can satire be used to present something horrific as even worse?  How to write a PEE
  How to use the DADOREST techniques for deliberate effect

How students will independently apply their knowledge: Key Concepts:

 Completing the Daly Retrieval  Conflict
 Answering the Essential Questions  Oppression
 Answering comprehension questions  Discrimination
 Pair/group/class discussions  Prejudice
 PEE  Loss
 Descriptive and non-fiction writing  Honour
  Patriotism

Skills students will need to apply their knowledge: Tier 2 and 3 Vocabulary linked to the Unit:
 Comprehension Propaganda
 PEE analytical writing Sombre
 Effective talk in pairs and groups Jingoistic
 Annotation Satire
 Use if DAFOREST for deliberate effect Sarcasm
Massacre