Wonders of the World

In our modern day world there are many famous buildings and man made structures that could be thought of as Wonders of the World.  For example: The Eiffel Tower and The Great Wall of China could be considered as candidates on a list of the top ten most famous places to visit.  

If you stop for a moment to think about the places you know about or have heard about what would you put on your Worlds Wonders list?  If you could plan a trip to go anywhere, to visit any place, where would you go?

List your top ten travel destinations.

You could include:

 natural wonders

cities

buildings or 

journeys that you would like to make

Take a look at these places.

ANZAC's

On the 25th of April every year we remember the people that fought and died in past wars.

The first great (big) war was the World War I.

In 1915 many New Zealand and Australian soldiers died in Gallipoli.

Look closely at these images from World War I

What do you notice?

What do you think it was like to be part of this?

Respond to these images?

Planning for Writing

Use these keywords to help you list as many ideas as you can about the war.

Parallel Thinking Document Click

Doing – Number – Texture – Colour

Shape –Position - Size

Feels-Sounds-Looks-Smells-Tastes

World War Art Images

Click on the slide show on the right to see more photographs.

Next Step

Use your ideas to write a series of descriptive sentences that recreate these photographs in words!

Sort and organise your sentences to create a vivid memory of the war.