Engaging and ready to teach one hour lesson to cover chapter nine of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne. This lesson helps students to consider how the Nazis used propaganda in education to influence the population - and apply this to the character of Herr Liszt. Students then consider which subject they would add to the curriculum and propose their reasons in detail.
Learning Objective: Analyse how school curriculums were used as propaganda during the Holocaust.
Learning Outcomes:
Bronze: Add a new subject to the curriculum and explain why in detail.
Silver: Use persuasive techniques to convince your classmates.
Gold: Predict the long-term effect of adding your subject to the curriculum.
Lesson Outline:
Do It Now: Look at anti-Semitic propaganda. How would people have reacted to it?
Starter: Introduction to education in Nazi Germany
Activity 1: Read chapter 9 and pay attention to how Herr Liszt is introduced.
Activity 2: Design a new curriculum – students make a poster to propose that a new subject be added to the curriculum and give supporting reasons.
Student carousel and feedback
Plenary: What would the long term effect be of adding your subject to the school curriculum? In 5 years, 20 years, 100 years?
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Two pre-reading lessons to introduce students to the context of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is available for free here.
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Loved this lesson! Very engaging to look at education during WW2, and how it is displayed in the book. This relates a lot more to the students, and improves their critical thinking with social media and the world around them.
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