A level – Germany c1890-c1990



A level – Germany c1890-c1990

Week 1: Overview

Lessons 1&2

TASK A: ESTABLISHING PERIODS (10 mins)

• Split class into 2 teams

• Students place the ‘period labels’ in the correct time frame

• Students add the 3 wars

TASK B: ESTABLISHING A CHRONOLOGY (10 mins)

• Each team divides itself into 2 sub teams (making four groups in total)

• Students chunk the pictures into 5 sections

• Students order chronologically within each section

• Peer feedback - sub-teams swap tables (leave post –it notes for feedback)

TASK C: ESTABLISHING A NARRATIVE (30 mins)

• Continue in sub-teams

• Students label each picture

• Students link the pictures (Concept Mapping)

• Peer feedback - sub-teams swap tables (leave post –it notes for feedback)

TASK D: ESTABLISHING A SENSE OF PERIOD (45 mins)

• Each sub-team divides into pairs

• Students place the video clip in the correct period

A = Auschwitz: The Nazis & The Final Solution (Documentary)

B = Germany Divided: The Berlin Wall (Documentary)

C = The First World War: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ (Novel & Film)

D = Life in East Germany: ‘The Lives of Others’ (Film)

E = Resistance in Nazi Germany: ‘Valkyrie’ (Film)

F = The Second World War: ‘Downfall’ (Film)

G = Weimar Germany: ‘The Rise of Evil’ (TV series)

TASK E: ESTABLISHING ENQUIRY QUESTIONS (40 mins)

• What do you want to know? 3 questions for each topic

• Categorise the questions (using the key historical concepts)

HOMEWORK TASK: ESTABLISHING EXPECTATIONS (for Week 2)

• 5 Rs

• Read around & watch around (1 film/documentary and 1 chapter from a novel from suggested reading/watching list)

• Reading/Research Log

HOMEWORK

FILMS

The First World War - The German perspective:

• All Quiet on the Western Front

Weimar Germany:

• The Rise of Evil (TV series)

Resistance in Nazi Germany:

• Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (The White Rose resistance movement)

• Valkyrie (The 1944 Bomb Plot)

The Second World War:

• Enemy at the Gates (Stalingrad)

• Downfall (the last days in Hitler’s bunker as the Soviet army surrounds Berlin)

The Holocaust:

• Schindler’s List

• The Pianist

• Life in Beautiful (comedy)

Life in East Germany:

• The Lives of Others

• Goodbye Lenin (comedy)

Life in West Germany

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s)

DOCUMENTARIES

• The Nazis - A Warning From History (BBC)

• The People’s Century (BBC – 20th century)

• Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust

• Auschwitz – The Nazis and the Final Solution (BBC)

• Days that shook the world (Season 1, Episode 6 on Kristallnacht)

• The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin

NOVELS/BOOKS

• All Quiet on the Western Front

• Fatherland (A vision of what Germany could have been like had Hitler won the war)

• Times Arrow (The Holocaust told backwards!)

• Schindler’s Ark

• Slaughterhouse 5 (The bombing of Dresden)

• Stasiland (Life in East Germany)

You Tube Clips:

• A = Auschwitz: The Nazis & The Final Solution (Documentary)

• B = Germany Divided: The Berlin Wall (Documentary)

• C = The First World War: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ (Novel & Film)

• D = Life in East Germany: ‘The Lives of Others’ (Film)

• E = Resistance in Nazi Germany: ‘Valkyrie’ (Film)

• F = The Second World War: ‘Downfall’ (Film)

• G = Weimar Germany: ‘The Rise of Evil’ (TV series)

• Video A:



• Video B:



• Video C:



• Video D:



• Video E:



• Video F:



• Video G:



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