Iconography

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-iconography.html
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Who created a particular text? What as their aim? What kind of means did they use for this?
Is the source reliable? What tells you so?
Can you detect any bias? Is there any vital information that has been left out?
What kind of symbols have been included? Why?

Some possible guiding questions to go with the iconographic about Ukraine (available on Tera)

* How does the design of this map help readers to understand multiple possible outcomes of war?

* What techniques are used to shape the reader's understanding of the causes of war?

* Whose side is this map on?

The language of war

This should support PhilpotNew U4.1 and any war-related texts (incl poems by Duffy)

PhilpotNew pp 208-209: full text of The State of Union Address (George W. Bush, 2003):

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-the-congress-the-state-the-union-23

Video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?174799-2/2003-state-union-address (the extract in PhilpotNew Text 4.5 is the very beginning of it)

In any case, pay special attention to how words are used to describe war (euphemisms, blunt language, direct statements, hinting, allusion, imagery, metaphors, etc). Look at what type of text it is, and whether the author's choice of vocabulary, sentence patterns,, imagery, etc, is somehow dependent on the genre of the text, who wrote it, when, about which war, etc. Why has the author made such choices?

 A list of war-related vocabulary: https://myvocabulary.com/word-list/war-vocabulary/

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/war

Sensory language: 

Show, don't tell :)

https://studymoose.com/war-poets-and-the-five-senses-essay

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-bhcc-acceleratedenglish/chapter/sensory-details-examples/

Task: do the mindfulness five senses exercise: 

https://medcenterblog.uvmhealth.org/wellness/physical/mindfulness-mindful-monday-exercise/

Creative portfolio task: Write a paragraph about anything that you want to, using sensory language (all the five senses!)

George Carlin video on euphemisms (PhilpotNew p 210):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o1FDWyfvvw (since this is long, leave it as homework)

Related articles (found by class of 2021):

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/the-language-of-war-and-weapons-1.3854 (Niks)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11056757/Why-slang-is-the-language-of-war.html (Nati)

https://soa.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/anthro_theses/russell_sara.pdf

http://www.ugr.es/~jsantana/lies/language_war.htm (Andrei)

https://legionmagazine.com/en/2019/06/euphemisms-acronyms-and-outright-lies-the-language-of-war/ (Kerli)

http://theconversation.com/the-warspeak-permeating-everyday-language-puts-us-all-in-the-trenches-121356 (Marta)

Overview of global issues: 

http://www.worldrevolution.org/projects/globalissuesoverview/overview2/PeaceNew.htm

Turning war into art: https://www.wanderarti.com/turning-war-into-art/ - Is this intertextuality?

Trench art: https://daydreamtourist.com/2015/05/11/trench-art/

More of street art: https://www.streetartbio.com/

An example of a student's art sketchbook:  

https://www.studentartguide.com/featured/war-theme-a-level-art

Task: Start from doing PhilpotNew U4.1 task 1.10 + text 4.7, then move on to curate a class exhibition = BOW of Banksy's war-related pieces of street art. This should be a common document accessible through everyone's portfolio, and each student needs to present one piece of art to class with detailed analysis so that collectively you would have a BOW in which at least half the pieces of art are accompanied with explanations / analyses.

Videos about Banksy: 

Who is Banksy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoe3Nn5vuBg (13:54)

Banksy's street art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSsjC-F9bwk (6:17)

Banksy art hotel in Bethlehem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMS6Ds3qryY

Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMUJ8zFtcu0 /1:26:10)

War (work in progress)

War photographer by Carol Ann Duffy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWQRJcCeJk

Task (should have been done in class): 1) summarise each stanza in 1 sentence, 2) mark the places where the tome shifts in the poem, and add at least one adjective to describe the tone in each fragment, 3) What does the poem say about war? 4) How would you word a global issue on the basis of this? 5) mark at least 5 literary devices you would use to inform about the GI. 6) See what of the following analysis helps you to add to your annotation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsp82hv/revision/1#:~:text

History of war in 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsDn2kNriI

The deadliest wars in the 21st centuries: 

https://www.britannica.com/list/8-deadliest-wars-of-the-21st-century

Propaganda techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques

This is the enemy (collection of war posters, you have to be on Pinterest to see this):
https://in.pinterest.com/jacekjedut/this-is-the-enemy/

Shooting stars by Carol Ann Duffy: https://poemanalysis.com/carol-ann-duffy/shooting-stars/

Thursday, January 27 - International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust 2022

The Holocaust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Some well-known Holocaust poetry: https://interestingliterature.com/2019/12/famous-holocaust-poems/

Photographs: https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/media_list.php?MediaType=PH

Soviet war crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes