History at key stage 3 (Year 9)
Unit 19: How and why did the Holocaust happen?
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Section 1: Rights and responsibilities?
Children:
- identify key aspects of an individual's rights and responsibilities within a representative democracy
- make links between an individual's rights and responsibilities within a representative democracy
- demonstrate an understanding of how an individual's rights and responsibilities can be denied
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Section 2: Rights denied: why was Anne Frank forced to go into hiding?
Children:
- recall, select and organise key incidents from Anne Frank's life story and represent it in storyboard format
- analyse the withdrawal of human rights from the Frank family
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Section 3: Rights denied: how did Nazi persecution of the Jews develop?
Children:
- explain some consequences of laws against the Jews in Nazi Germany
- use sources of information to suggest a tentative explanation of why the Nazis intensified their persecution of the Jews
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Section 4: How and why were ghettos set up and what was life like inside them?
Children:
- ask and answer questions relating to a visual source about a ghetto
- show an understanding of the reasons why the Nazis created ghettos for Jews
- draw supported conclusions from a range of source material about life in a Jewish ghetto
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Section 5: What was the Final Solution?
Children:
- use a combination of source material to provide specific evidence of one aspect of the 'Final Solution'
- demonstrate accurate knowledge of the treatment of the Jews and of other groups
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Section 6: What happened when people found out about the Holocaust?
Children:
- describe and explain contemporary attitudes to those responsible for the death camps
- demonstrate an understanding of the impact of death camps on their inmates
- represent the effects of surviving the Holocaust upon individuals by presenting thoughts in a diagrammatic format
- identify reasons for the post-war difficulties of displaced persons
- recognise an author's standpoint and how it affects the meaning
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Section 7: Exploring the Holocaust - what questions and issues remain?
Children:
- 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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Section 8: So, how and why did the Holocaust happen?
Children:
- analyse and evaluate the causes of the Holocaust
- select, organise and deploy information to answer the overarching question
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