All Quiet on the Western Front

By Erich Maria Remarque

Task

• Read pages iv – viii

• Fill in the graphic organizer from the information that you have found in those pages.

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Who What Where

When Why How

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When does this novel take place?

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When ?1914, during WWI

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What is happening?

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What? World War 1

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Where does the novel take place?

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Where? The Western Front, near the

border of France and Germany.

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Why did WW1 start?

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Why? Because Archduke Ferdinand of

Austria was assassinated.

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Who is telling the story?

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Who? Paul Baümer

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How were Paul and his friends inspired to go to war?

Author’s Original Introduction

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure. For death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped the shells, were destroyed by the war.

Author’s Original Introduction

• What does the author’s introduction mean?

• How does it show what the novel is about?

• What does this mean to you?

• Are war novels often adventure stories?

What gets destroyed by war?(This list was generated by the class on Sept 21, 2009)

• families• homes• country• buildings• education

• the soul• future• vision• perspective• dreams• hopes• friendships• strengths

Take a stand

• You must make a “take a stand,” or choose a side, to some interesting statements.

• You must answer either YES or NO.

• You may not answer “I’m not sure,” or “Maybe.”

Take a Stand

• Imagine that you were in a bad accident and in the hospital.

• You no longer had brain activity.

• You were being kept alive by machines only.

• There was no hope of regaining your brain activity.

• Do you want to continue life support?

Take a Stand• Imagine that you were in a bad accident and you

are in the hospital.• You no longer had brain activity.• You were being kept alive by machines only.• There was no hope of regaining your brain

activity.• Keeping you in the hospital is costing your family

all of their money.• Do you want to continue life support?

Take a Stand• Imagine that your little brother or sister was in

the same situation.• He/she no longer had brain activity.• He/she was being kept alive by machines only.• There was no hope of regaining his/her brain

activity.• Keeping him/her in the hospital is costing your

family all of their money.• Do you stop life support?

Take a Stand• Imagine that your mom or dad was in the same

situation.• He/she no longer had brain activity.• He/she was being kept alive by machines only.• There was no hope of regaining his/her brain

activity.• Keeping him/her in the hospital is costing your

family all of their money.• Do you continue life support?

Take a Stand

• Your soul is in your body that stays with you until you die.

Take a Stand

• The soul is your mind.

Take a Stand

• If your mind is dead, your soul is dead.

Together, out loud

• Read pages 1 – 4.

• Stop after Müller throws away his cigarette.

Task – on your own

• Read pages 4 – 5• Start at “Kantorek”• End at the sentence: Under it, the world as they

had taught it to us broke into pieces.

• Discuss: What is a generation?• Who teaches the next generation?• What can you learn from good or bad teaching?• Was Kantorek a bad teacher?

We can finally finish the graphic organizer.

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How were Paul and his friends inspired to go to war?

We can finally finish the graphic organizer.

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How? Their teacher told them it was patriotic to go to war.

Finishing the chapter

• Read pages 5 – the end of the chapter.

Why does Paul say that even though they are only 19 years old, they are no longer young?

Task

• Go to the wiki page and enter your work.