War- Concentration Camps.

MISS GEMMELL

Brain in gear. Title for today: Concentration camps.

How has the representation of a concentration camp changed over time?Write anything based on the question above.

Think wider than just these two images.

Learning objectives. Must:

Be able to select appropriate descriptions and describe the five senses. Should:

Be able to produce your own interpretations and perspectives about German soldiers including a range of sophisticated vocabulary.

Could: Be able to construct a descriptive piece which includes a range of

sentence types.

Quick thinkThroughout the book ‘ The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ Bruno’s sister calls the concentration camp ‘Out-with’ why has the reader done this? What connotations can you take from the word ‘Out-with’?

Paired taskTask: Working together in pairs try to write a description of what you feel Bruno’s father will be like.

Challenge: Can you make any comparisons between this man and the sergeant Majors from the poem ‘Base Details’.

Set in 1944, we see the story through the eyes of Bruno, a nine-year-old German boy whose father has a mysterious but prestigious position within the German army. We gradually come to understand the true horror of ‘Out-With’, and the full implications of his father’s job as Commandant.

Hook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLAGPnE6jPA Task: Spend the next 5 minutes

adding to your description and re-drafting your impressions of

this man.

Has your impression changed?

Has it stayed the same?

How could you add more description?

Making connections between sources. o Now we have understood that Bruno’s father played a huge role in the concentration camp. o We will try to understand what it was really like to live in a concentration camp.

oListen carefully to the description used in the text.

Write your own experience of how YOU would feel in a concentration camp.

Write from the perspective of a Jewish captive or an important German soldier.

Challenge: Include the use of the 5 senses and the sophisticated vocabulary that we

have learnt for this topic. Struggle: Write how Shmuel and his family

would have experienced in the concentration camp.

Challenge 2: Include all 7 types of sentences.

Simple Compound Compound-complex

Fronted complex

Rear complex Embedded clause

Fragment/

Post those things on the wallI can understand

some of it but not all of it…

I found this difficult today or I don’t

understand…

I fully understood this lesson.

The task I understood the most was…

Choose ONE statement to comment on and post your post-it note on the correct section.

You must state your name.

E.g. The discussions were a little confusing.

E.g. I understood the concentration camp but I didn’t understand the text.

E.g. I understood everything. I really understood the impressions made of the German soldiers.

Key words. Representations- the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way.

Prestigious- inspiring respect and admiration; having high status.

Implications- a likely consequence of something.

Impression- an idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence.

Perspectives- a view or prospect. (the possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring).

Antisemitism- hostility to or prejudice against Jews. (a pre-judgement).