Remembrance Day
Would you like to know more about Remembrance Day? Have a look at this article !
Miss Castrec’s students read poems in English to celebrate this highly symbolic day. Let’s listen to them !
In Flanders Fields : This poem was written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. At that time he noted how poppies quickly grew around the graves of those who died in the battle. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. In Flanders Fields was first published on December 8 of that year in the London magazine Punch.
The Last Laugh : Wilfred Owen, who wrote some of the best British poetry on World War I, composed nearly all of his poems in slightly over a year, from August 1917 to September 1918. By May 1918, Owen regarded his poems not only as individual expressions of intense experience but also as part of a book that would give the reader a wide perspective on World War I. In November 1918, he was killed in action at the age of twenty-five, one week before the Armistice.
TOPIC 1 – NEVER FORGET
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025 – “Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.
Many loved ones of the nearly 3,000 people killed will join dignitaries and politicians at commemorations Thursday in New York, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Others choose to mark the day at more intimate gatherings.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5537731/anniversary-911-terror-attacks
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