Selection One Personal Response s1

FRIDAY FOUR

Selection One – Personal Response

Read the following lyrics. Identify words and phrases that connect to the concept of war. Write a theme statement that discusses how war is portrayed in the song.

Zombie

Another head hangs lowly, Child is slowly taken. And the violence caused such silence, Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family. In your head, in your head they are fighting, With their tanks and their bombs, And their bombs and their guns. In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie, Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head, In your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie? Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin', Heart is taking over. When the vi'lence causes silence, We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen. In your head, in your head they're still fighting, With their tanks and their bombs, And their bombs and their guns. In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie, Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head, In your head, Zombie, zombie, zombie? Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

Dolores O’Riordan

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Selection Two – Reflection

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

~John F. Kennedy

Copy the quote. Write a 2-3 sentence reflection regarding your thoughts about the quote (do you agree, disagree, still have questions, etc.).

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Selection Three – Creative

Begin a story with the following line from a Margaret Atwood poem:

“We are learning to make fire.”

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Selection Four – Analysis

Read the following poem. Analyze it for imagery. What is the overall message conveyed here about war? What are your thoughts about war?

DULCE ET DECORUM EST1 Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares2 we turned our backs And towards our distant rest3 began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots4 Of tired, outstripped5 Five-Nines6 that dropped behind. Gas!7 Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets8 just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime9 . . . Dim, through the misty panes10 and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering,11 choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud12 Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest13 To children ardent14 for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.15 --Wilfred Owen 1 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country.