Tag Archives: All Quiet on the Western Front

Creative Responses to All Quiet

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

In response to their reading of All Quiet on the Western Front, my students created poetry, diary entries which contrasted with letters home, did drawings, a hooked rug (see below).  One student destroyed a copy of All Quiet, filling a … Continue reading →

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Dear General Shinseki

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

We have finished reading All Quiet on the Western Front and our last conversation in class about the book became a passionate discussion about how war seems to be such an absurd way of settling conflicts, especially in light of … Continue reading →

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Navigating the space between child and adult

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

As a way to discuss our way through All Quiet on the Western Front, I have assigned different groups of students to prepare vocabulary, factual questions for a quiz (which each group will grade), and interpretive questions to discuss for each … Continue reading →

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Public pooping

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

In my afternoon class today, we spent about a half an hour talking about pooping and not just pooping privately, but, in fact, pooping with one’s friends. We have just begun All Quiet on the Western Front and in the … Continue reading →

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All Quiet creative projects

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

We snuck into an empty music storage room where there was a piano so JG could play us the piece he had composed for the ending to All Quiet on the Western Front. He had gone halfway through it before … Continue reading →

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Not “All Quiet”

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

We are reading All Quiet on the Western Front now. I have given different chapters to groups of students for them to create and grade a reading quiz (they love playing teacher), to define some vocabulary, but most importantly, to … Continue reading →

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Posted on May 1, 2011 by

Sometimes working with 13 year olds can be nerve-wracking, challenging, frustrating. Then there are times when they can be, well, …inspiring. At the end of our reading of All Quiet on the Western Front, I ask my students to do … Continue reading →

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Miracles happen

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

We just finished reading All Quiet on the Western Front. In our last discussion of the book, my afternoon class spent nearly 45 minutes talking about the last page and a half of the novel. OK, this may not be … Continue reading →

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Would you rather be a garbage man or a mathematician?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

We discussed Chapter 6 today of All Quiet on the Western Front, a vivid and disturbing chapter about the realities of war. A man biting his artery so he wouldn’t bleed to death; a soldier holding in his intestines; a … Continue reading →

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Is this going to be on the test?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

We are reading All Quiet on the Western Front now. Yesterday we were talking about poison gas. There is a scene in the book where the main character, Paul, tears off his gas mask gasping for oxygen. We talked about … Continue reading →

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