ANZAC Legend

Anzac Day and the Anzac legend

Grade 9 - History
World War One

Students will apply knowledge of the ANZACs through questioning.

Success Criteria

Students will be able to explain the commemoration of ANZAC day and its significance.

Focus

Expectations

Word Cloud

Brain Jog:

One word describing ANZAC Day.

Multiple Select

Even before World War I had ended, Australians looked for a way for the whole nation to recognise the efforts of the Australian forces and the sacrifices that the war demanded. Today, we continue to remember the wars with two official commemoration days – .................................... and ................................ – along with a number of other symbols and traditions.

• Anzac Day

• Memory Day

• Remembrance Day

• labour

Multiple Choice

For Australians, ......................................... of World War I has always been closely tied to the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915.

• celebration
• memorial
• observance
• commemoration

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Despite Australians being involved in more successful campaigns and battles during World War I, it is Gallipoli that has come to s......................................... Australia’s war experience.

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Despite the disastrous landing and loss of life, Australians at home met the news from Gallipoli with a sense of p...................

Multiple Choice

True or False:

In the first news reports that reached Australia, the soldiers were praised for their courage and gallantry.

• Partially true
• True
• False
• Not mentioned

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Anzac Day, 25 April, was made a day of commemoration in ....................... ​

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Poll

True or False:

That year, ceremonies and marches were held all around Australia. A march was also held in London, England, where the Anzac troops were hailed by local newspapers as
‘The Knights of Gallipoli’.

• True

• Partly True

• False

• Definitely False

Multiple Choice

By 19............, Anzac Day had become a public holiday in Australia, with marches and dawn services held around the country annually.

• 1935
• 1949
• 1956
• 1927

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The events of 25 April 1915, on a peninsula in Turkey, continue to resonate with Australians today. More than any other event in Australia’s history, the Gallipoli landing occupies a s................. place.

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A legend has developed around Gallipoli that grows stronger as the years pass. Schoolchildren learn about the Gallipoli landing and relish legends such as the story of Simpson and his d.........................

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Hundreds of thousands of Australians join in or watch Anzac marches through large capital cities and small country towns. Many more take part in ​

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and wreath-laying ceremonies at war memorials throughout the country.

Multiple Choice

Each year, increasing numbers of young Australians find their way to Gallipoli to be present at the Anzac Day dawn service there. It has become something of a rite of passage. Anzac ceremonies, wherever they are held, t.................................. conclude with the words from Laurence Binyon’s poem ‘For the Fallen’.

• traditionally

• together

• Terribly

• Turbulence

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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will​

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them".

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remember

forget

ignore

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The significance of the Gallipoli campaign, and the origin of the Anzac legend that surrounds it, can largely be linked to the fact that it was the ​

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that Australia had fought in a war as a nation.

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first time

last time

only time

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Australia had only existed for 13 years as a united country at the time it went to war. Australians at home waited eagerly for accounts of the first encounter of the Australian Imperial Force. When news of the first battles at Gallipoli appeared in Australian papers on 8 May 1915, the fact that the landing had been a failure was almost completely o.................................

Multiple Choice

True or False:

Commentators at the time, and in the years since 1915, have developed the theme that Gallipoli was a defining national experience. It has been said that ‘Australia became a nation on the shores of Gallipoli’.

• Partially true
• True
• False
• Never happened

Multiple Select

Historians have referred to the Gallipoli experience as Australia’s ‘baptism of ........................’ or ‘baptism of ......................’.

• blood

• wind

• fire

• rain

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It has also been suggested that, although they were enemies, a sense of respect developed between the Anzac s.......................... and the Turks.

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Brain Wrap:

One word that resonated with you today.