Due Date: Thursday 6th April 2023
WAR
NCEA Assessment Criteria
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Exemplars
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Pay attention to the exemplars. Take note of the detail they go into about their connections. Surface ideas and links are not enough at Level 2. You must analyse the author or director's message and interpret it in your own words.
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War Texts
We will look at a series of texts which link to war.
Falling Sparrows
Dulce et Decorum est - by Wilfred Owen
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Anthem For a Doomed Youth
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War Photographer
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Click here to read the story of the girl whose picture helped end the Vietnam war.
This story shows how another picture in 2015 was used for impact.
This story shows how another picture in 2015 was used for impact.
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Themes:
The poem focuses on two main themes:
The horror of war
Duffy’s skillful yet understated imagery helps to convey the terrible personal stories that lie behind every conflict. Perhaps almost in an attempt to counter the graphic imagery that we have become so used to seeing, her depictions are subtle and understated and she often leaves the reader to compose their own images.
For example, in the line to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet /of running children, she takes an image that we would usually associate with something innocent and happy and subverts it into something much more sinister.
Similarly, her description of the dying man contains almost no visual imagery and instead focuses on the sense of sound through the word choice cries and the unspoken communication between the photographer and the victim’s wife.
By focusing on just one image rather than the countless others that were taken, Duffy forces us to confront the personal cost of war. In doing so, Duffy again exposes another paradox inherent in the coverage of modern conflict, implying that we have lost the capacity to view the subjects of war as real human beings, each with unique, individual stories and tragedies.
Our increasing indifference to the victims of conflict
Throughout the poem, Duffy conveys the increasing separateness and isolation the photographer feels both towards his own country and the newspaper he works for.
Unlike us and his editor, he is unable to protect himself from the horror of the subjects he photographs and there is a sense of growing bitterness as he continues to feed the voracious need for news in the knowledge that we are increasingly unmoved and unaffected by the images. Our disingenuous response is recorded most clearly in the line 'The reader’s eyeballs prick/with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.'
His contempt for his editor is revealed in the careless, thoughtless way he notes how he chooses photographs for the paper, picking out five or six/for Sunday’s supplement.
Ironically, in an almost parallel response to our desensitisation, the photographer too feels increasingly indifferent towards his homeland and fellow countrymen as he stares impassively at where/he earns his living and they do not care.
The poem focuses on two main themes:
- the horror of war
- our increasing indifference to the victims of conflict
The horror of war
Duffy’s skillful yet understated imagery helps to convey the terrible personal stories that lie behind every conflict. Perhaps almost in an attempt to counter the graphic imagery that we have become so used to seeing, her depictions are subtle and understated and she often leaves the reader to compose their own images.
For example, in the line to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet /of running children, she takes an image that we would usually associate with something innocent and happy and subverts it into something much more sinister.
Similarly, her description of the dying man contains almost no visual imagery and instead focuses on the sense of sound through the word choice cries and the unspoken communication between the photographer and the victim’s wife.
By focusing on just one image rather than the countless others that were taken, Duffy forces us to confront the personal cost of war. In doing so, Duffy again exposes another paradox inherent in the coverage of modern conflict, implying that we have lost the capacity to view the subjects of war as real human beings, each with unique, individual stories and tragedies.
Our increasing indifference to the victims of conflict
Throughout the poem, Duffy conveys the increasing separateness and isolation the photographer feels both towards his own country and the newspaper he works for.
Unlike us and his editor, he is unable to protect himself from the horror of the subjects he photographs and there is a sense of growing bitterness as he continues to feed the voracious need for news in the knowledge that we are increasingly unmoved and unaffected by the images. Our disingenuous response is recorded most clearly in the line 'The reader’s eyeballs prick/with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.'
His contempt for his editor is revealed in the careless, thoughtless way he notes how he chooses photographs for the paper, picking out five or six/for Sunday’s supplement.
Ironically, in an almost parallel response to our desensitisation, the photographer too feels increasingly indifferent towards his homeland and fellow countrymen as he stares impassively at where/he earns his living and they do not care.
The War is on the Kitchen Table
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Cloze paragraph answers:
War is reported daily in newspapers and has become as mundane as making breakfast. The soldiers are no longer remembered as people, but as numbers in a battle which is less significant to civilians than sports results. Yet soldiers are individuals who fight, are wounded and killed in a real war.
War is reported daily in newspapers and has become as mundane as making breakfast. The soldiers are no longer remembered as people, but as numbers in a battle which is less significant to civilians than sports results. Yet soldiers are individuals who fight, are wounded and killed in a real war.
Hero of War
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The Things They Carried
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Tama Tu
6 Maori Battalion soldiers wait for night to fall in the ruins of a ruined Italian home. Forced into silence they keep themselves amused like any boys would, with jokes and laughter. As they try and ignore the reminders of war around them, a tohu (sign) brings them back to the world of the dying. They gather to say a karakia (prayer) to unite their spirits before they head back into the dark of war.
War - sentence themes
War makes people into liars
War makes people into heroes
War brings out qualities such as courage and sacrifice
War is a waste of human potential
War is confusing when goals and the purpose for fighting is lost amongst the horror and pain
War makes people tenacious and focused
War distorts what is normal, making wrong things acceptable
War is exhilarating, challenging and rewarding
The best part of war is the friendships you make with fellow soldiers
War is unjust, killing at random
War is synonymous with sacrifice
War deprives innocent people of their futures
Participants in war become numb to the killing
War makes people into heroes
War brings out qualities such as courage and sacrifice
War is a waste of human potential
War is confusing when goals and the purpose for fighting is lost amongst the horror and pain
War makes people tenacious and focused
War distorts what is normal, making wrong things acceptable
War is exhilarating, challenging and rewarding
The best part of war is the friendships you make with fellow soldiers
War is unjust, killing at random
War is synonymous with sacrifice
War deprives innocent people of their futures
Participants in war become numb to the killing
Connections - some possible themes
Revenge
- Carrie - Stephen King (film and novel)
- We all Fall Down - Robert Cormier (novel)
- Women Murder Club - James Patterson (novel)
- Prisoner of Birth - Jeffery Archer (novel)
- Road to Perdition - M A Collins (film)
- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? - Alan Duff (film and novel)
- V for Vendetta (film)
- The Dark Knight (film)
- The Vendetta - Guy de Maupassant (short story)
The power of sport
- Exposure - Mal Peet (novel)
- The Book of Fame - Lloyd Jones (novel)
- Touch Me - James Moloney (novel)
- Tawerau Nikau (biography)
- The Blind Side (biography and film)
- Field of Dreams (film)
- Invictus (film)
- Rocky (film)
- Remember the Titans (film)
- The Natural (film)
Racial discrimination / Resilience / Prejudice / Discrimination (not all texts link to all of these)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (novel)
- Once Were Warriors - (film)
- Remember the Titans (film)
- The Help - (novel and film)
- Rabbit Proof Fence - (film)
- A Way of Talking - Patricia Grace
- The Hills - Patricia Grace
- The Dolls House - Katherine Mansfield
- The Colour Purple - Alice Walker (novel and film)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (novel and film)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (autobiography)
- Caged Bird - Maya Angelou (poem)
- Telephone Conversation - Wole Soyinka (poem)
- I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King Jnr (speech)
- Arrangement in Black and White - Dorothy Parker (short story)
- Brown Brother - youtube clip (speech)
- The Danger of the Single Story - (TED speech)
- The Graffiti of Mr Tupaia - (Short film)
- Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman (novel)
Women's struggle against society
- The Piano (film)
- The Help - Kathryn Stockett (novel and film)
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (novel, 1847; and film 2011)
- Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff (novel and film)
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (novel 1813, film 2005)
- Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding - Katherine Mansfield (short story)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (novel)
- North Country (film)
Hardship and survival
- It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong (autobiography)
- Night - Elie Wiesel (autobiography)
- Tooth and Nail - Mary Findlay (autobiography)
- Treading Water - Rob Hewitt's Survival Story (biography)
- Into the Wild - (film)
- 127 hours - (film based on 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place' - novel)
- The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins (novel/film)
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place - A Ralston (novel)
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding (novel)
- The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan (novel)
- Touching The Void - (film)
- Krystyna's Story - Halina Ogonowksa-Coates (biography)
Childhood
- The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank (autobiography)
- Night - Elie Wiesel (autobiography)
- To the Is-Land - Janet Frame (autobiography)
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson (autobiography)
- Stand by Me - (film)
- Breaking Away - (film)
- Lord of the flies - William Golding (novel)
- Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera (novel)
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (novel)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - M Haddon (novel)
- Juno - (film)
Themes to turn into sentence themes
This list below is to help you get started - you will need to turn them into sentence themes which are much more specific.
Treatment of animals
Friendship
Challenges
Love
Family
Friendship
Leadership
Mental illness
Racism
Stereotypes
Teenagers
Illness
Parental love
Relationships
Peer pressure
Control and power
Outsiders to society
Coping with death
Impact one person can make
Influences in children
Corruption
Sports, fair play, sportsmanship
Loyalty
Justice
Acceptance
Choices
Courage
Atonement
Inequality
Conflict
Consequences
Greed
Obligation
Hope
Neglect
War
Betrayal
Dysfunctional families
Belonging
Bullying
Grief
Secrets
Forgiveness
EXEMPLARS
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Possible places to find texts
Documentaries HERE
TED Talks HERE
Tips:
How is the theme shown in the text? What events, characters, images, symbols, relationships, language features etc help to express the themes? Give examples that show this.
What does the author/director want to show you? What do they seem to be suggesting about your connection?
What does the author/director want to show you? What do they seem to be suggesting about your connection?