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Organisation chart of the first lesson

School: Secondary School

Subject: History

Lessons: 2 = 90 minutes

Class: 8/9

Topic of the lessons: From Heroes to Cripples - The change of the public perception of the soldiers in World War I.

Educational objective: The students get to know the effects of World War I on the soldiers and can lead it back to the mechanisation of the war.

First lesson (45 minutes): The students get to know the effects of World War I on the soldiers and can name them.

Second lesson (45 minutes): The students can lead the effects of World War I on the soldiers back to the mechanisation.

Prior learning: The students already got an overview of World War I. They got to know the preconditions of war, cause of war, outbreak of war, the euphoria the people had, course of war and end of the war.

time

(total)

Lesson phases

Action of the teacher

Action of the students

Educational objective

Method/ media/ materials

2 (2)

Greeting

- Greeting

Students listen

The teacher get to quiet the students

5 (7)

Review of the last lesson

- Asks student for a review of the last lesson

- Makes a collection of generic terms on the blackboard

Student gives review;

All other students listen and they are non-stop active in participation

The students get the same level of knowledge.

Blackboard1

chalk

5 (12)

Introduction of the topic: war cripples

- Asks students to give an description of a normal job advertisement

- Shows students overhead transparency 1, invites a student to read the red- marked parts

- Asks students whether there is a difference between those job advertisements and a current one

- Writes the title of the lesson on the blackboard: "From Heroes to Cripples"

Students are non-stop active in participation

The students get sensitised about the effects of World War I on the soldiers.

Introduction of the topic "From Heroes to Cripples ".

Overhead transparency1

Overhead projector

5 (17)

Instruction of a group work

- Presents the starting group work

- Divides the students in three groups

- Gives the worksheets to the respective group (WS1,WS2,WS3) and distributes the presentation materials

Students are non-stop active in participation and form the groups in which the teacher divides them for the group work

The students get an introduction to the group work and they can mentally prepare themselves for the imminent presentation.

Worksheet:

WS1 , WS2, WS3

Presentation utensils:

Overhead transparencies,

pens for them

15 (32)

Group work (Exercise 1)

- Guides each group of students, gives leads to them and checks their learning progress

Group 1:

WS1: Soldier as Heroes

Group 2:

WS2: Suffering of the war cripples

Group 3:

WS3: The public perception of the war cripples

Through discrete working on the exercise 1 of their worksheet the students get to know the changing of the public perception of war cripples.

overhead transparencies:

OHP WS1 , OHP WS2, OHP WS3

12 (44)

Presentation of the groups

- Guides the presentation, complements gaps and answers questions

- After the presentations the teacher collects the overhead transparencies, complements them in the post-processing and copies them for the next lesson

Each group presents their answers to their exercise 1 and listens attentive to the other presentations

The students argue with their topic and can put it in a major context of the war cripples.

Overhead projector

1 (45)

Summary

- scetches once more the transition of the soldiers as heroes to the cripples who came home from war

- Teacher gives the second erxercises in the worksheets as homework

- The teacher ends the lesson With an outlook to the upcoming lesson in which the question is asked why there were so many war cripples after World War I.

Students are non-stop active in participation

The students are collected in their thoughts by the teacher and they can put a closure to the topic.



   

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