Flanders field activity

1. What kind of a poem is ‘In Flanders Field’? Flanders field is a randeau.
2. What is a randeau? Find from the world wide web an example of a randeau. A randeau has 10-13 lines.
3. When was Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae inspired to write the poem? What main event was happening then?World war 1 was happening and he was inspired after his friend died.
4. How many years is it since WWI? It has been 100 years since world war 1.
5. In whose honour was the poem written? It was written in honour of his friend Lieutenant Alexis Helmer who died on the 2nd of may 1915.
6. What does the reference to the red poppy symbolise? It is a remembrance of the people who died in the war.Read here

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3. Write a message for the soldiers who gave their lives up in the World Wars, defending us.I would like to thank you for giving up your life.
4. Write the message the soldiers gave us in the poem ‘In Flanders Field’         In Flanders fields.
5. Take up our quarrel with the foe:
6. To you from failing hands we throw
7. The torch; be yours to hold it high.
8. If ye break faith with us who die
9. We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
10. In Flanders fields.
12. Write a rhyming poem about Wars and why they bring destruction to mankind.

War is nothing but a loss of life

for many, they left their wife.

The loss of blood could cause a flood

as the soldiers fell with a thud 

as they they lay dead on the floor.