1. What does this map show?
Choose one:
Schlieffen Plan
Operation Barbarossa
Dardanelles
Triple Entente
Give a description of your choice; tell us what it is.

2. Today’s Objective
Students will identify a mood in Wilfred Owen’s poem, Dulce et Decorum est and justify with evidence from the poem.
Also, students will argue how the alliances of the war became a justification for the Armenian Genocide.
10.5.4Understand the nature of the war and its human costs
10.5.5Discuss human rights violations and genocide, including the Ottoman government's actions against Armenian citizens.

3. Agenda Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen Mood responses
Armenian Genocide
Study Guide and written response
Letter by Frank Earley (if time permits)

4. Dulce et Decorum est…” by Wilfred Owen
Page 454 of textbook
You can take notes
in your document packet,
in your writers book or
on the paper you have been using for document analysis in your binder.
We will read the poem 3 times.
We are analyzing for mood, just as we have been for the previous documents we’ve looked at.
Take notes on evidence that creates the moods in the poem.

5. Vocab
Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori—It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country. Roman poet, Horace
Lime—white, calcium-based powder used to hide the odors of dead bodies.
Guttering—to sound like running water.
Writhing—to twist the body about, as in pain.

6. Identify a mood Read back over the poem on your own.
Select a line or phrase that creates a particular mood.
Write an argument that identifies the mood
and justify your argument with evidence from the poem.
Explain how the evidence you have selected creates a mood.
Extend your writing by making a connection to something beyond the poem

7. Model
Distress is one mood present in Wilfred Owen’s poem, Dulce et Decorum est when the narrator describes what it’s like rushing to put your gas mask on during an attack. In the second stanza the narrator learns that the enemy has dropped gas bombs in the midst of him and his companions. He describes, “An ecstasy of fumbling/Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time.” The words “fumbling” and “just in time” connote a sense of distress and franticness as the narrator and his companions are trying to put their gas masks on before the poison reaches them. This is similar to the scene related by Erich Maria Remarque on pages of his novel All Quiet on the Western Front, demonstrating that this was an unfortunately common occurrence for soldiers in World War I.

8. Armenian Genocide
Background for video. 1999

9. Armenian Genocide Background for video. 1999.
Kosovo a province in Serbia.
Site of Serbian, Eastern Orthodox Church. Also home to Muslim Kosovars.
Lived in relative peace and tension for 100s of years.
1991 Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia break away from Yugoslavia.
Kosovo wants to do the same, but peacefully.
Until 1998 when it becomes violent.
Religious and ethnic cleansing.