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CLASS ACTIVITY VIEWING :
Redgum - I Was Only 19 (1983) VIEW this in class on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
What ideas about the effects of war on young men and women are expressed by the song?
Discuss the following line - 'Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon/God help me, he was going home in June'.
What does the title of the song mean?
STUDENT ACTIVITY
Find a song that express sentiments about war :
e.g Mettalica - One
Leo Sayer - I hear the Laughter
Van Morrison - Virgo Clowns
Bruce Springsteen - Born in The USA
POETRY
Dulce et Decorum Est ~ Wilfred Owen ~ Kenneth Branagh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghUFB2WZD6A
Only one week before the end of the war, while attempting to traverse (cross) the Sambre canal,Wilfred Owen was shot and killed. He was 25 years old. Although his poem is about World War 1, it has a lot in common with modern songs and poems about war.
What are the messages of these songs and poems?
Collect your favourite lines that you consider demonstrate the nature of war and the way the song writers and poets feel.
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