Slidedeck from my session at the 2014 ACTS Conference.

1. what is learning?

2. neil winton
english teacher
blogger
speaker
writer
learner
ictexed member

3. What follows requires nothing
more than hard work and effort…

4. What follows requires nothing
more than hard work and effort…

5. learning is…
…natural
…spontaneous
…normal
…unpredictable

6. school is…
…unnatural
…planned
…abnormal
…predictable

7. ww1 poetry
traditional approach
involves reading and
analysis of poems
leading to critical essay

8. ww1 poetry
traditional approach
gives you…
A poem that I have recently studied is Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred
Owen. Written in the time of the war, the reader expects a touching poem
about the bravery of the soldiers, but instead they get the complete opposite.
We think of deaths that occur in the war would be quick and painless a single
bullet, but in this poem Owen shows us that extremely slow and intense. . The
poem protests against the idea that is it “sweet and right to die for ones
country”; by bitterly describing one soldiers excruciating death as he got
caught in a gas attack during World War I. The imagery and word choice he uses
shocks us, but the soldiers are completely desensitised to these scenes, and
that is the touching bit part for us.
In this essay I will be telling my point of view of which poem is the best out
of the two, “Dulce et decorum est” by Wilfred Owens or the poem “The Call”
by Jessie Pope.
Both poems were written during and response to the Great War. “Dulce et
Decorum Est” is about the reality of the Great War not the lies about how good it
was unlike Jessie Pope wrote. Wilfred Owens was in the British Army and
wrote what he saw. He came up with “Dulce et Decorum Est” when he was in
Craiglockhart war hospital after he was diagnosed with shell shock fighting for

9. ww1 poetry
Time Detectives
Approach

10. CfE: Time
Detectives
Case 01

11. Time Detectives
• Investigate the clues…
• Make the connections…
• Solve the mystery…

12. What You’ve To Do…
• You’ll be given lots of
different pieces of
evidence… but very little
information about them.
• You will need to find out
what each thing is… and
then work out how they
all link together.

13. Solve The Mystery…
• Why was this changed?
• "what minute-bells for
these who die so fast"

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15. ww1 poetry
Time Detectives
Approach
puzzle it out…

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solo taxonomy

17. ww1 poetry
start from a position of
knowing nothing…
solo prestructural

18. ww1 poetry
starting to learn
solo unistructural

19. ww1 poetry
knowing several things
solo multistructural

20. ww1 poetry
finding links
solo relational

21. ww1 poetry
hypothesising
solo extended abstract

22. ww1 poetry
let the fun begin…

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30. shhh…
“It’s the notes
you don’t play
that matter…”
Miles Davis
1926-1991

31. What is beauty?
What do you think?

32. Examples
• Write down the names
of FIVE people that
you consider beautiful
• Write down the names
of FIVE people you
think are not beautiful

33. Examples
• Write down the names
of FIVE places that
you consider beautiful
• Write down the names
of FIVE places you
think are an eyesore

34. Question
• Is beauty only skin
deep?
• What other kinds of
beauty can there be?
• What is more
important: looks or
personality?

35. Definition
• TASK: Write a
definition of what
beauty means to you.
• Use your examples to
try and illustrate this.
• Can you explain why
different people
consider different
things are beautiful?

36. what is beauty
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly2vp2tLH8s
Task: http://secondyear.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/your-mission/

37. "We aren't stuck with
the things we have
now. We can make
new things, better
things. And it doesn't
take many people to
do it..."
- John Siracusa
writing about Steve Jobs

38. It takes one...

39. you

40. you

42. questions
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