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Help would be nice :)
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| FeatherQuill |
Posted on February 05 2010 09:15 AM
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Sometimes school ask too much of me, I'm not a teacher! But every Friday I need some kind of activity that will fit into 15 mintues during tutor period. Honestly trying to come up with things to do is becoming a bit stressful, the theme is the holocaust a sensivtive issue. Now last week I printed off nazi propoganda to introduce them and got them to disscuss what the posters meant and what they tried to make them think. This proved difficult as a lot of them would not cooperate and simple said "I don't know" so I pointed out symbols, stances and stereotype. The most success I had was one group who managed to crack the propoganda about the USA. One girl though blatently refused saying why would I want to look at this then, it's not good if it's Nazi in a manner of speaking anyway I just couldn't get through to her that we weren't looking at them because it's good but to try and understand.
Anyway now I need another holocaust related activity and I'm at a loss any help? |
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| RottieWoman |
Posted on February 05 2010 01:34 PM
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maybe could you take them in separate groups and designate stereotypes of one group and the other group is the non-stereotyped group and have some kind of role-playing exercise <might have to get some kinda parental permission or something, I don't really know from this> but if you incorporate fake propaganda around the stereotyped group, because the activity is interactive and they can see or really perceive it in real current "time", maybe they may become more interested? After this activity than you can go back to the actual Reich stuff and compare - how same, how different? |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on February 05 2010 04:49 PM
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2/5/10
Dear FeatherQuill,
In my Logic class, my teacher had a similar problem. He needed to use some examples of totally biased, scientifically flawed 'conclusions'. But, he realized that it would be better to use something not related to any 'real life' subject (such as you mentioned), but rather to use a less 'provocative' theme. The examples that he had to use were, admittedly, a bit insipid at times, but it was worth it to avoid causing pain to someone who might have been 'personally touched' by that terrible time in history. I think that your employers were asking too much of you. - jus' |
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| FeatherQuill |
Posted on February 08 2010 10:57 AM
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You'd think was was some kind of work shadowing wouldn't you, but it's a price of being a Sixth Former (last two years) at my school. All year 12's work with the lower year groups for community reasons I suppose. Sad thing is I did manage to come up with something and then an assembly was announced on litter  |
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