All Quiet on the Western Front

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All Quiet on the Western Front

• By Erich Maria Remarque

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Task

• Read pages iv viii
• Fill in the graphic organizer from the
  information that you have found in those pages.

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From the reading, we will fill in the boxes.
Who
What
Where
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When
Why
How
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From the reading, we will fill in the boxes.
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When does this novel take place?
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From the reading, we will fill in the boxes.
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When ? 1914, during WWI
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From the reading, we will fill in the boxes.
What is happening?
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From the reading, we will fill in the boxes.
What? World War 1
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Where does the novel take place?
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From the reading, we will fill in the boxes.
Where? The Western Front, near the border of
France and Germany.
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Why did WW1 start?
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From the reading, we will fill in the boxes.
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Why? Because Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was
assassinated.
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Who is telling the story?
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From the reading, we will fill in the boxes.
Who? Paul Baümer
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We will save this last one for later in the class.
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How were Paul and his friends inspired to go to
war?
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Authors Original Introduction

• This book is to be neither an accusation nor
  a confession, and least of all an adventure. For
  death is not an adventure to those who stand face
  to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a
  generation of men who, even though they may have
  escaped the shells, were destroyed by the war.

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Authors Original Introduction

• What does the authors introduction mean?
• How does it show what the novel is about?
• What does this mean to you?
• Are war novels often adventure stories?

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What gets destroyed by war?(This list was
generated by the class on Sept 21, 2009)

• families
• homes
• country
• buildings
• education

• the soul
• future
• vision
• perspective
• dreams
• hopes
• friendships
• strengths

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Take a stand

• You must make a take a stand, or choose a side,
  to some interesting statements.
• You must answer either YES or NO.
• You may not answer Im not sure, or Maybe.

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Take a Stand

• Imagine that you were in a bad accident and in
  the hospital.
• You no longer had brain activity.
• You were being kept alive by machines only.
• There was no hope of regaining your brain
  activity.
• Do you want to continue life support?

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Take a Stand

• Imagine that you were in a bad accident and you
  are in the hospital.
• You no longer had brain activity.
• You were being kept alive by machines only.
• There was no hope of regaining your brain
  activity.
• Keeping you in the hospital is costing your
  family all of their money.
• Do you want to continue life support?

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Take a Stand

• Imagine that your little brother or sister was in
  the same situation.
• He/she no longer had brain activity.
• He/she was being kept alive by machines only.
• There was no hope of regaining his/her brain
  activity.
• Keeping him/her in the hospital is costing your
  family all of their money.
• Do you stop life support?

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Take a Stand

• Imagine that your mom or dad was in the same
  situation.
• He/she no longer had brain activity.
• He/she was being kept alive by machines only.
• There was no hope of regaining his/her brain
  activity.
• Keeping him/her in the hospital is costing your
  family all of their money.
• Do you continue life support?

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Take a Stand

• Your soul is in your body that stays with you
  until you die.

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Take a Stand

• The soul is your mind.

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Take a Stand

• If your mind is dead, your soul is dead.

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Together, out loud

• Read pages 1 4.
• Stop after Müller throws away his cigarette.

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Task on your own

• Read pages 4 5
• Start at Kantorek
• End at the sentence Under it, the world as they
  had taught it to us broke into pieces.
• Discuss What is a generation?
• Who teaches the next generation?
• What can you learn from good or bad teaching?
• Was Kantorek a bad teacher?

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We can finally finish the graphic organizer.
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How were Paul and his friends inspired to go to
war?
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We can finally finish the graphic organizer.
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How? Their teacher told them it was patriotic
to go to war.
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Finishing the chapter

• Read pages 5 the end of the chapter.
• Why does Paul say that even though they are only
  19 years old, they are no longer young?

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Task

• Go to the wiki page and enter your work.