In Flanders Field

Hello Grade Fives!   

This week, at our Remembrance Day assembly, our class will recite the famous Canadian poem ‘In Flanders Field’. In preparation for our presentation, you will listen to the poem and read about when it was written. Please use the following links to become more familiar with when the poem was written, the author, and the poem itself. This week you will not be responding to the blog.

    

World War I the beginning in brief 

Snap shots of the war time

The Author

Why the poem was written

In Flanders Field      

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow  

In Flanders fields. 

John McCrae

Listen to the poem read aloud

Love, Mrs. French