1. Look carefully at the photograph What can you learn?
Lesson 1
Look carefully at the photograph
What can you learn?
What do you already know?
In pairs share your ideas and write your own caption

2. Why is the Holocaust so significant?
What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
L.O. (1) Reflect on what you know and use this to identify questions and problems to sort out
What questions do you think that we should ask in History lessons about the Holocaust?
What do you think History can add to your understanding?
How do you think Historical study of the Holocaust might be different from moral / religious / citizenship study of events?
Do you think studying the Holocaust in History lessons is important?
Write 2-3 questions about the Holocaust and the role of Nazi Germany which you think History lessons could help you to answer

3. What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
Reflect on what you know and use this to identify questions and problems to sort out
Be able to identify how anti-Semitism has changed over time
Start to analyse the causes and consequences of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany

4. What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
(L.O.) Be able to identify how anti-Semitism has changed over time
Task
Work in pairs to read one of the Source sheets
Medieval Sources and (2) Modern Sources
Independently consider what you can learn about how and why Jewish people in particular have been persecuted
Describe your sources and explain what you have learnt to your partner
Together consider what has changed over time and what has stayed the same

5. Enquiry Homework
Use your research skills to find out about some (2-4) of the laws the Nazis passed against Jews
Consider : Who? What? Where? When? Why? And Consequences?

6. What 3 things did you learn last week about anti-Semitism?
Lesson 2
What 3 things did you learn last week about anti-Semitism?
What conclusions have you been able to draw so far about possible causes of the Holocaust?

7. What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
Be able to identify how anti-Semitism has escalated over time ( )
Be able to analyse the causes and consequences of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany
Work as part of a team and question each other to expand my thinking

8. What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
Task: Work as a team!
Match: the date and context cards to the persecution cards
Discuss: How do you think policy is changing over time and why?
Chronology.pptx

9. What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
Task
Identify different stages which show how anti-Semitism is changing over the course of Nazi rule ( )
What do you think the consequences of those changes would have been? (choose 2 laws from the steps sheet, one of which should be the Nuremburg Laws or Kristallnacht)

10. Exclusion
Laws
Separation
Isolation
Loss of individuality
Hitler
Identification
War
Outsiders
Nazi beliefs and Ideas
Economic issues
Scapegoat
Emigration / Escape
Violence
State Persecution
Propaganda

11. What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
Homework Task:
VLE worksheet Other Countries Reactions
Everyone should complete Q3 & 4
Some people should also be able to complete Q5-6

12. Can you add any more questions to your list from last lesson / answer any of your questions yet?
Why do you think it’s important to study the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany before looking directly at the Holocaust?

13. Lesson 3
Why is the Holocaust so significant? What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
L.O.
Understand the connection between the Holocaust and WW2
Be able to identify criteria for assessing significance

14. Why is the Holocaust so significant
Why is the Holocaust so significant? What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
Task: using the orange Germany books
What can you learn about the Nazis aims from the map on p.26?
What can you learn from Source D about Nazi racial views and policy?
What is the link between WW2 and the treatment of Jews up to 1941?

15. Why is the Holocaust so significant
Why is the Holocaust so significant? What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
Task: using the orange Germany books
What was the Final Solution?
Wannsee
Extermination camps
‘Final Solution’

16. 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day
The Holocaust is one of the few events that are
specifically named in the National Curriculum
for Key Stage 3.
What does this suggest?
Why do you think it is regarded as so significant?
Task
In groups discuss and decide what criteria we
should use to determine if an event is of
historical significance?

17. Possible questions to ask when considering historical significance
Did it have far reaching consequences?
How did it affect people
Did it change peoples lives permanently?
How many people did it affect?
Is it still relevant to our lives today?
Can we learn lessons from the event?
Are these lessons relevant to today’s society?

18. Why is the Holocaust so significant
Why is the Holocaust so significant? What can History teach us about the Holocaust?
Task: using the information sheet and sources
Write a short statement to explain why you think all students should study the Holocaust as part of their history studies
Listen to each others’ statements