History at key stage 3 (Year 9)
Unit 19: How and why did the Holocaust happen?
Section 7: Exploring the Holocaust - what questions and issues remain?
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Objectives |
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- to explore a range of questions relating to our understanding of the Holocaust, and to understand that the answers to them have not necessarily been found
- about the role of individuals and organisations in maintaining and opposing the Holocaust
- to research a question and reach a conclusion
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Activities |
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Children: |
- Offer the pupils one or two questions,
eg Why didn't the Jews resist? As a class discuss responses and collect these to display as a wall poster.
- Using a range of appropriate resources, and working in groups, ask each group of pupils to investigate one main topic, via structured worksheets, to explore and explode stereotypes. Topics could include:
- How did the Jews resist?
- Did any individuals try to offer rescue and shelter?
- Why didn't the Allied governments do more to help?
- Why didn't the German people do more?
- Why didn't the Christian churches do more to resist the Holocaust?
- What happened in occupied lands, such as the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, the Channel Islands?
- Ask pupils to present their work, in a format chosen by the group, to the rest of the class, and give the class opportunities to ask questions.
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- identify questions about the Holocaust that remain unanswered
- select, organise and deploy information relating to one aspect of the Holocaust
- recognise that there are complex reasons for actions
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Points to note |
- Key issues for the group work are:
- to provide a range of resources in sufficient depth for the pupils to acquire relevant information to assist their research
- to ensure each group has a sound structure for the enquiry and sufficient guidance on events/issues to cover,
eg the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, rescuers such as Oscar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, extent of Allied knowledge of the concentration camps
- to allow pupils the opportunities to display their findings according to their research area
- Key skills: the group work will provide opportunities for evidence of working with others.
- Language for learning: pupils ask different sorts of questions to extend thinking and refine ideas,
eg Does that imply ...?, Does that mean ...?, Would we need to ...?
- ICT: pupils can be presented with structured worksheets on file with preset internet links to relevant sites. Pupils might be encouraged to choose an appropriate ICT format to present their group's work to the rest of the class.
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