Writing Week 2- ANZAC

ANZAC Day Writing and Reading - Week 2 

Many countries around the world have a special day where they mark the memory of those
who went to war on behalf of their nation. Like the British Remembrance Day tradition,
poppies are worn to signify support for the soldiers who lost their lives. Sometimes Anzac Day
is called Poppy Day, but Poppy Day, when the poppies go on sale, is usually the Friday
before Anzac Day. In New Zealand we observe ANZAC Day on the 25th April. Anzac Day
is a public holiday in New Zealand. If Anzac day falls on a weekend in New Zealand,
it will be observed on the following Monday.

Task 1: READ for meaning: Below are 12 pieces of text,  I would like you to read through. 
These are all based around ANZAC and poppies. Then complete the text in each box. 

What other plants are used for remembrance? Plants:	Give an example where the writer is using a simile?  My example is:	Why did the ch ild ask his mother why the poppies were red? They are red because
What will we do ‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning’ We will	What is ‘Two-up’ also known as? Also known as: By the end of 1915, allied forces were evacuated from ? the	Who wrote the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’? By:
On average, how many burials occur each weekday at Arlington?  There are What has been placed on the Graves since 1948?  They put..	What does a writer mean by ‘So remember every November’? It means:	If we caught the torch you  And holding high, what do we keep and with who? We  keep
Find an example of text where there is rhyme. My example is:	In the maori version of the ‘Ode of Remembrance’ what do you think ‘Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou’ means in English? It means:	What is the Last Post? The last post is:

Extra Reading that might help with somethings you might wonder about in other countries. United Kingdom: Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of the remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.  USA: On both Memorial Day and Veterans Day, it’s customary to spend time remembering and honoring the countless veterans who have served the United States throughout the country’s history. However, there is a distinction between the two holidays:

“We Shall Keep the Faith”

by Moina Michael, November 1918

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,

Sleep sweet – to rise anew!

We caught the torch you threw

And holding high, we keep the Faith

With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red

That grows on fields where valor led;

It seems to signal to the skies

That blood of heroes never dies,

But lends a lustre to the red

Of the flower that blooms above the dead

In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red

We wear in honor of our dead.

Fear not that ye have died for naught;

We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought

In Flanders Fields.