Remembrance day or Poppy Day

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month

Marks the signing of the Armistice, on11th November 1918, to signal the end of World War the First.

Remembrance day is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed in the two World Wars and other conflicts.

John McCrae, a doctor serving with the Canadian Armed Forces, was so deeply moved by what he saw in Flanders, the western part of Belgium, that, in 1915 he wrote a poem “In Flanders Fields” where he speaks of the poppies and their symbology of life, hope and colour, able to reassure those still fighting.

On that special day, all the Gramsci students of terza media will wear a poppy and they will follow two minute silence. Through the vision of the film War Horse they have already had the possibility of knowing the hard life of the soldiers in trenches.They are preparing posters and reading poems. They will be involved in several activities in English during a meeting in Aula Magna to experience directly the spirit of memory.