1. THE LIES WE ARE TOLD… This unit will take approx. 6 weeks to complete
Our primary focus is WWI poetry
We will be looking at the theme of The lies we are told from the following angles: Propaganda, Censorship, History, Language, Film
NOTE: It is expected that you will write essays as practice towards your exam for the ‘Written Text’ section (4 credits)

2. What is war?
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
- George Orwell

3. There have been more deaths from war in the last 100 years than in the previous 2000 combined. This list does not contain all of them… what does this tell you about human nature… think about it…

4. : Francisco Macias Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (50,000)  1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war (500,000)  1972-: Philippines vs Muslim separatists (Moro Islamic Liberation Front, etc) (120,000)  1972: Burundi's civil war (300,000)  : Rhodesia/Zimbabwe's civil war (30,000)  : Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)  : Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)  : Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (1.7 million)  : Boat people, Vietnam (250,000)  : civil war in Lebanon (40,000)  : Laos' civil war (184,000)  : Angolan civil war (500,000)  : Argentina's military regime (20,000)  : Mozambique's civil war (900,000)  : Indonesia-East Timor civil war (600,000)  : Indonesia-Aceh (GAM) civil war (12,000)  : El Salvador's civil war (75,000)  1979: Vietnam-China war (30,000)  : the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (1.3 million)  : Iraq-Iran war (1 million)  : Sendero Luminoso - Peru's civil war (69,000)  : Kurds vs Turkey (35,000)  : Nicaragua vs Contras (60,000)  : Hissene Habre, Chad (40,000)  1983-: Sri Lanka's civil war (70,000)  : Sudanese civil war (2 million)  1986-: Indian Kashmir's civil war (60,000)  1987-: Palestinian Intifada (4,500)  : Afghanistan civil war (400,000)  : Somalia's civil war (550,000)  1989-: Liberian civil war (220,000)  1989-: Uganda vs Lord's Resistance Army (30,000)  1991: Gulf War - large coalition against Iraq to liberate Kuwait (85,000)  : Congo's civil war (800,000)  : Sierra Leone's civil war (200,000)  1991-: Russia-Chechnya civil war (200,000)  : Armenia-Azerbaijan war (35,000)  : Tajikstan's civil war war (50,000)  : Yugoslavian wars (260,000)  : Algerian civil war (150,000)  : Congo Brazzaville's civil war (100,000)  : Burundi's civil war (200,000)  1994: Rwanda's civil war (900,000)  1995-: Pakistani Sunnis vs Shiites (1,300)  1995-: Maoist rebellion in Nepal (12,000)  1998-: Congo/Zaire's war - Rwanda and Uganda vs Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia (3.8 million)  : Ethiopia-Eritrea war (75,000)  1999: Kosovo's liberation war - NATO vs Serbia (2,000)  2001-: Afghanistan's liberation war - USA & UK vs Taliban (40,000)  2002-: Cote d'Ivoire's civil war (1,000)  2003: Second Iraq-USA war - USA, UK and Australia vs Saddam Hussein (14,000)  2003-: Sudan vs JEM/Darfur (200,000) (to date - and growing) 2003-: Iraq's civil war (60,000) (to date - and growing)
: Boxer rebels against Russia, Britain, France, Japan, USA against rebels (35,000)  1903: Ottomans vs Macedonian rebels (20,000)  1904: Germany vs Namibia (65,000)  : Japan vs Russia (150,000)  : Mexican revolution (250,000)  1911: Chinese Revolution (2.4 million)  : Italian-Ottoman war (20,000)  : Balkan wars (150,000)  1915: the Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians (1.2 million)  : the Ottoman empire slaughters 500,000 Assyrians  : the Ottoman empire slaughters 350,000 Greek Pontians and 480,000 Anatolian Greeks : World War I (20 million)  1916: Kyrgyz revolt against Russia (120,000)  : Soviet revolution (5 million)  : Greece vs Turkey (45,000)  : Poland vs Soviet Union (27,000)  : Chinese civil war (2 million)  1931: Japanese Manchurian War (1.1 million)  : Soviet Union vs Ukraine (10 million)  1934: Mao's Long March (170,000)  1936: Italy's invasion of Ethiopia (200,000)  : Stalin's purges (13 million)  : Spanish civil war (600,000)  : Japanese invasion of China (500,000)  : World War II (55 million) including holocaust : Chinese civil war (1.2 million)  : Greek civil war (50,000)  : France-Vietnam war (600,000)  1947: Partition of India and Pakistan (1 million)  1947: Taiwan's uprising against the Kuomintang (30,000)  : Colombian civil war (250,000)  : Arab-Israeli wars (70,000)  1949-: Indian Muslims vs Hindus (20,000)  : Mainland China vs Tibet (1,200,000)  : Korean war (3 million)  : Kenya's Mau Mau insurrection (20,000)  : French-Algerian war (368,000)  : Mao's "Great Leap Forward" (38 million)  : South Africa vs Africa National Congress (?)  : Guatemala's civil war (200,000)  : Indonesia vs West Papua/Irian (100,000)  : Kurds vs Iraq (180,000)  : Mozambique Frelimo vs Portugal (?)  : USA-Vietnam war (3 million)  1965: second India-Pakistan war over Kashmir  : Indonesian civil war (250,000)  : Mao's "Cultural Revolution" (11 million)  1966-: Colombia's civil war (31,000)  : Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)  : Rhodesia's civil war (?)  1969-: Philippines vs New People's Army (40,000)  : Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)  : IRA - Norther Ireland's civil war (2,000) 

5. TASK:
In groups
brainstorm out
everything you
know about
WAR

6. WWI – Discuss among yourselves the following questions and write down your ideas
What do you know about WWI?
What was life like during WWI for the soldiers?
What was life like for the families and friends back home during WWI?

7.
ANZAC
The Great War
70 Million
9 Million
Allied Forces
Central Power
Propaganda

8. Allied Forces:
Mobilized: ,243,214
Killed in action: - 5,691,241
Wounded in action: - 12,809,280
Total casualties: ,500,521

9. Central Powers:
Mobilized: ,850,000
Killed in action: - 3,131,890
Wounded in action: - 8,419,533
Missing/prisoners: - 15,181,252
Total casualties: ,181,252

10. Green: Allies
Orange: Central
Grey: Neutral

12. War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. - George Orwell

13. WW1 Stats (approx.) Country Mobilized Killed Wounded Total Africa
55,000
10,000
unknown
Australia
330,000
59,000
152,000
211,000
Austria-Hungary
6,500,000
1,200,000
3,620,000
4,820,000
Belgium
207,000
13,000
44,000
57,000
Bulgaria
400,000
101,000
153,000
254,000
Canada
620,000
67,000
173,000
241,000
The Caribbean
21,000
1,000
3,000
4,000
French Empire
7,500,000
1,385,000
4,266,000
5,651,000
Germany
11,000,000
1,718,000
4,234,000
5,952,000
Great Britain
5,397,000
703,000
1,663,000
2,367,000
Greece
230,000
5,000
26,000
India
1,500,000
43,000
65,000
108,000

14. WW1 Stats (approx.) Country Mobilized Killed Wounded Total Italy
5,500,000
460,000
947,000
1,407,000
Japan
800,000
250
1,000
1,250
Montenegro
50,000
3,000
10,000
13,000
New Zealand
110,000
18,000
55,000
73,000
Portugal
100,000
7,000
15,000
22,000
Romania
750,000
200,000
120,000
320,000
Russia
12,000,000
1,700,000
4,950,000
6,650,000
Serbia
707,000
128,000
133,000
261,000
South Africa
149,000
12,000
19,000
Turkey
1,600,000
336,000
400,000
736,000
USA
4,272,500
117,000
204,000
321,000

15. Propaganda
WHAT IS IT?
“Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man’s deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotised by slogans as he is to infectious disease. And where there is an epidemic, the group mind takes over.”
- Arthur Koestler

16. MODERN DAY PROPOGANDA in NZ
Advert 1 – To Serve and Protect – NZ Navy
What in this advert inspires young people to join the navy?
What in this advert inspires pride in New Zealand?
Discuss three areas: MUSIC, NARRATION, IMAGES
Advert 2 – Royal NZ Air Force
What in this advert inspires young people to join the army?
Discuss three areas: MUSIC, NARRATION, IMAGES

17. Censorship
WHAT IS IT?
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
- John Mortimer

18. WHAT IS IT? Censorship The paper burns, but the words fly away.
- Akiba ben Joseph
DISCUSS THIS QUOTE IN PAIRS – WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

19. QUOTES about WAR Write down the quotes in your book and discuss what you think it means in your groups. There are 5 quotes.

20. “Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.” - Latin Proverb
Write down the quote in your book and discuss what you think it means in your groups
“Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.” - Latin Proverb

21. Write down the quote in your book and discuss what you think it means in your groups
“The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.” - Arthur Wellesley - Duke of Wellington

22. “In times of war the first casualty is truth.” - Boake Carter
Write down the quote in your book and discuss what you think it means in your groups
“In times of war the first casualty is truth.” - Boake Carter

23. “In peace, sons bury fathers; in war, fathers bury sons.” - Herodotus
Write down the quote in your book and discuss what you think it means in your groups
“In peace, sons bury fathers; in war, fathers bury sons.” - Herodotus

24. Write down the quote in your book and discuss what you think it means in your groups
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.” - Shakespeare