[etni] Holocaust Remembrance Day - a poem for an English lesson on Yom Hashoah
- From: Gunther Volk <gunther.volk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:39:09 +0200
Dear all,
Holocaust Remembrance Day is just around the corner. For anyone who would
like to try something new I am attaching a fascinating little poem along
with a lesson plan that made for a stimulating lesson when I taught it on 27
January, the day the victims of the Holocaust are remembered in Europe.
The teaching objectives can be summarized as follows:
· Use a seemingly naïve little poem to analyse one of the root-causes
of anti-Semitism.
· Listen to a prose version of a poem in the class?s native language
and be able to retell it in English.
· Work out the different roles played by the four different characters
mentioned in the text.
· Apply the terms perpetrator, collaborator, victim and bystander to
the characters in the poem.
· Work out from the text that the mother?s disagreement with the
teacher?s view makes her a kind of ?warning conscience?. She is not a
bystander.
· Realize that evil happens if ?good? people decide not to become
involved.
· Optional: Study an additional text and work out how Christian
teachings about Jews helped pave the road to the Holocaust.
Shavua tov,
Gunther Volk
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