Students learn through a logical and step - by - step learning journey, including: - Understanding the context
of the poem and the
horrific events that took place in the battle; - Understanding key information about Owen Sheers» life; - Reading and interpreting the poem; - Interpreting the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the language and structural features; - Finding and analysing the language features used throughout the poem, and considering how these link to the poet's message; - Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Sheers gets across his message about
war; - Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.