Homework instructions Monday 5th November 2018
1.Continue learning the poem that you have chosen from the ones that you were given last week. You will be asked to recite it in class from next Monday 12th.Remember to get an adult to help you to try some of strategies you were given to help you learn the poem. It will be very useful in the future to know which strategies work best for you.
2.Discussion task: Next Tuesday, in our writing lesson, you will be writing a letter from a soldier in the trenches in WW1. Discuss your ideas for your letter with an adult. Tell the adult some of the things that you have learnt about life in the trenches. Below you will find a copy of a real letter from a soldier in the trenches. Read this with the adult and discuss it.
Thank you, Mrs Allan and Mrs Danielian P7A/D 😀
Letter from the trenches:
December 25th, 1914
My Dear Father,
Christmas Day you see me still alive, though by Jove, since the 20th I’ve been having a fairly hairy time. We were sent to a place where the enemy had broken the line. When we finally got under the last cover available we were ordered to make a bayonet attack on the enemy trenches! It was a criminal order on the part of the man who ordered it.
After 26 hours in water up to the waist I was sent to dry myself with my half squadron behind the firing line. Still sopping wet we were sent off to another lot of trenches and from these I was then pulled out and sent off for a patrol. Every time I showed myself “ping” went a bullet!
However, I finally reached the line of the British Trenches I was making for where to cap all my troubles, I was arrested as an enemy spy!! It was not until I had been taken before the C.O., with a rifle muzzle in the small of my back, that I was allowed to depart.
Yesterday, we did a 25-mile march I have a pair of feet like balloons and an attack of neuritis and a chill! […] My tootsies are awfully painful. Well we get well paid so mustn’t complain I suppose.
Must stop now, so once more wishing you a Merry and Happy New Year.
Au revoir – Your Loving Trevor
This letter was written by 24 year old Second Lieutenant Trevor Bird. He survived the war and had children and grandchildren.
