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History at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 19: How and why did the Holocaust happen?

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Outcomes

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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Sections in this unit

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1. Rights and responsibilities?
2. Rights denied: why was Anne Frank forced to go into hiding?
3. Rights denied: how did Nazi persecution of the Jews develop?
4. How and why were ghettos set up and what was life like inside them?
5. What was the Final Solution?
6. What happened when people found out about the Holocaust?
7. Exploring the Holocaust - what questions and issues remain?
8. So, how and why did the Holocaust happen?