A few years ago I taught an ANZAC Day unit with the Grade 6 classes and I shared with them one of my favourite poems called Ninety Years Ago by Rupert McCall who is one of our modern Australian poets. Rupert McCall wrote this poem to commemorate the 90 year anniversary of the Landing at Gallipoli. He shared his poem on ANZAC Day on the beach at Anzac Cove at Gallipoli just as the sun was rising over the water. To this day it is still one of the most moving ANZAC Day moments I have ever watched. You can read Rupert’s poem Ninety Years Ago below…
One of the Grade 6 students, Christopher B was so inspired by the poem that he wrote his own version of Ninety Years Ago and you can listen to it here Ninety Years Ago – adapted by ChrisB
This is a book trailer for the book Simpson and his Donkey written by Mark Greenwood
What does ANZAC Day mean to you?
Hi Kim (Miss Y)
I have been checking out your blog and love it. I was one of the librarians at Holy Rosary that was truly inspired to start a library blog for my own school. As I have just finished a unit on Remembrance day with the senior students I intend to show them this clip. I am yet to be able to get video onto my Blog. I am slowly working it out. Cheers Carmel
Hi Carmel
Thank you for visiting our LRC blog and leaving a comment. It’s great to hear you have a library blog already! (I’d love to add it to our blog roll if you would like to share it). If I can help you in any way please ask. (I think you have my email address)
I hadn’t realised that the Web 2.0 tool that I had used for the poem wasn’t working so I’ve found another one and you can see the poem again if you want to refer to it at all.
Happy blogging!
Kim 🙂