Course overview - Study Period 3 and 4
During the first half term from January, Learners are completing their study of the second world war. They are examining the causes and key events of the second world war. They study the significance of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, D-Day and write an account to explain why Germany lost the Second World War. We will finish this unit by studying the dropping of the atomic bomb, and how this new technology changed the world.
From February half term, learners will be studying the Holocaust through reading Prisoner B-3087 in class. This book tracks the life of a young boy living through the Holocaust. The book is based on a true story and follows the life of Yanek from living in Poland in 1939 to being forced to march from one concentration camp to another as the war comes to an end in 1945.
Learners will start by exploring what is antisemitism, and the history of antisemitism before WW2. We will then explore what it was like living and growing up in the Ghettos before studying the Deportations and Concentration Camps. We will complete the study of the book by exploring the final solution and the death camps.
We will be rounding up the Holocaust and thinking about what lessons can be learnt from the Holocaust and why it is important that it is remembered. The learners will have the opportunity to finish the book before completing an assessment where learners will be writing a book review of Prisoner B-3087 and thinking about how historically accurate the events that Yanek experienced were to the real events
Key Concept:
War, Holocaust
Assessment Points:
Regular assessments of subject matter and knowledge retention using Google Forms and written questions writing an account of why Germany lost WW2 and a book review of Prisoner b3087 on the Holocaust.
Guidance:
1:1 interaction
Google Form assessments will be marked, and learners will be guided to focus on answers they missed.
Practice written questions and feedback given
Key Vocabulary:
Dictatorship – where one person rules the country and people do not have a say.
Democracy – where people get a vote to decide who runs the country.
Communism – Where the country is run for the working class and the Government controls all businesses.
Capitalism – Where individual people control business and can keep profits.
Fascism – Right wing racist parties. Ultra ‘nationalist’ and want a strong military and police. Individual people have no rights such as freedom of speech.
The RAF / Luftwaffe - The Air Forces of Britain and Germany
The Blitz - the bombing of British cities and bases by the Luftwaffe.
DDay - the Allied invasion of Normandy
Wehrmacht - The German army
Atom bomb - A bomb which uses the power of splitting atoms to release atomic energy.
The Holocaust - The persecution and murder of over 6 million Jewish people as well as homosexuals, disabled people, Romano Gypsies and others in Europe during WW2.
The Nazis - The fascist group led by Hitler who were in charge of Germany before and during WW2.
Ghettos - Walled off areas of cities in Eastern Europe where Jews were forced to live.
Concentration camps - Prisons where Jews and political opponents of the Nazis were forced to work in horrific conditions.
Death Camps - Camps where prisoners were murdered on mass by gas chambers, such as Auschwitz.