Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text of a poem written by a soldier describing life in the first world war, a worksheet to answer key questions about the structure and content of the poem, worksheet to define the meaning of different words in the poem.

The interactive presentation gets the children to identify and describe how poets express ideas, moods and feelings in a poem on a specific topic by exploring a poem about the first world war.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and reflect on how poets can use figurative language and verse structures to express themes and ideas about conflicts that have happened in the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.