Siegfried Sassoon’s antiwar writing

The resources support multilingual learners to access the meaning in Sassoon’s anti-war statement. The resources include visuals that illustrate the context of the First World War, to assist learners’ understanding of Sassoon’s argument. Through creating bilingual glossaries, preparing a summary and identifying synonyms, learners will develop an understanding of the language of the text.

In Part two of the resources, learners will access scaffolding in the form of sentence frames to make comparisons between Sassoon’s poem and statement. Additional activities provide preparation and support for learners to write their own letter to the press. In this process they will practise annotating the text, to explore how the text is structured, and how the writer has built their argument. This preparation is followed by the writing activity, using the support of a writing frame.

Part 1

This resource is the first of a two-part pack for KS4 English language study. The resources support multilingual learners to access, summarise, and analyse Sassoon’s anti-war statement.

Part 2

The resources support multilingual learners to compare a statement and a poem and to write a letter to the press.

Resource downloads

On the right hand side of this page are a number of documents that you can download for free. Please note that the Teaching Notes and Resources can be found in the pdf document (the first item on the list), whilst the PowerPoint document(s) include(s) presentation(s) which you can display on your interactive board in your classroom.

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