All Quiet on the Western Front - Day 5

Happy Tuesday!
Last night you read the battle scene at the end of chapter 4. Today we'll take a close look at it and compare it with a description of battle we saw earlier in the year.

We'll look at this collection of statistics together to help us frame our work.

Then you'll go to this link this excerpt from An Iliad. Read it and then in a new document respond to these questions:

1. How is the battle described? Think about people, weapons, places, and death. Use a quotation in your response.
2. What perspective is used to describe this scene? A narrator? A specific character? How does that impact your sense of what is happening? Use a quotation in your response.
3. What feelings are you, as a reader, left with after reading this scene?

Next, re-read the battle scene from last night - pages 65-70.  Answer the same three questions in the same document.

Lastly, respond to these questions:

1. How do these descriptions of battle compare? How are they similar / different?
2. How has war changed from the time of the Greeks to WWI?

Submit your work to turnitin. We'll follow that with a short discussion and some reading time.

For tomorrow, please read chapter 5.