Learning Objective:

1. Planners out! Learning Objective: To show convincing exploration of one or more ideas, perspectives or contextual factors. (AO3- Band 6-9) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9)

2. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) What does this image mean to you? What do you expect from a poem with the title ‘Poppies’?

3. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) The poem is set in the present day but reaches right back to the beginning of the Poppy Day tradition. Armistice Sunday began as a way of marking the end of the First World War in 1918. It was set up so people could remember the hundreds and thousands of ordinary men who had been killed in the First World War. Today, the event is used to remember soldiers of all wars who have died since then. When Poppies was written, British soldiers were still dying in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

4. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) Literacy Focus- Visualising As we read the poem, create a collage of images of which the poem suggests. Doodle these images in your book under the above title.

5. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) Label your images with links to the text. Challenge: How does each image make you feel? Why do you think that Weir might have wanted to create this image?

6. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) What was the role of women during times of conflict and how has this changes? How does the writer use gender stereotypes in the poem?

7. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) Sort the ‘Cost of War’ cards by matching the amount to what it belong to. Then consider, how does this link to the poem?

8. 94,279 • Estimated number of civilians who have been killed in Iraq due to violence between the beginning of the war in 2003 and 18 October 2009 Source: iraqbodycount.org 3

9. £3.2 billion • Cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan to Britain (up to March 2008) Source: 10 March 2008, timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3522202.ece 4

10. 1,500 • Estimated civilian casualties in war in Afghanistan (January–August 2009) Source: UN/wikipedia 5

11. 44 and 79 • Life expectancy in Afghanistan (44) compared to life expectancy in Britain (79) Sources: Unicef and Wikipedia 6

12. 56 • Percentage of people in a UK poll who said they were against the current war in Afghanistan (in October 2009) Source: BBC News 12 October 2009 7

13. 414 • Number of British servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan (2002–October 2009) Source: guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/17/afghanistan-casualties-dead-wounded-british-data 8

14. 50–70 million • Total estimated dead as a consequence of World War Two Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties 9

15. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) You will each be given a task to complete, based on the poem. You need to write down as many ideas as you can on the plain paper. Challenge: Consider hidden meanings and contextual links.

16. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) Sharing ideas

17. Thoughtfully consider ideas, perspectives and contextual factors by examining links. (Level 4-5- 5-7) Show some understanding of implicit ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 2-3- 3/4) Explore convincing links between ideas, perspectives and contextual factors. (Level 6- 8/9) Look at the images below: Can you find the quotation/idea that they refer to?