Would you like to get your students thinking clearly about
the Holocaust?
Rationale
My Schellberg Cycle workshop presents a unique view of Nazi Germany
and the Holocaust. It explores how normal decent people can become involved in something
so horrific.
The Cycle includes the true stories of some feisty women and
the men around them, including those of a young Jewish girl who comes to England
on the Kindertranpsort, her grandmother who puts herself in danger in order to
save some disabled children, her mother who has a dramatic encounter with Hitler
himself and some ordinary German young women who are at first taken in by the
glamorous life that the Nazi regime offers.
Nature of workshop
The workshop includes:
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Board games
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Creative writing exercises
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Role play exercises
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Reading material
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Discussion
What you get
Any school booking a workshop will also receive:
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All materials needed for the workshop on the day
(The school only needs to supply student stationery. A data projector and
computer is desirable)
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A copy of the materials so that you can disseminate
it to other groups or use them in future years. They will be provided on a
memory stick so that you can customise them later.
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Updates on developments in the project
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A copy of The
House on Schellberg Street for your school library (this will be sent to you
as soon as you book the workshop)
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Letters inviting students to purchase a copy of
the book (the school will only need to give these out – I myself shall handle
all purchases)
Practicalities
The full version of the workshop lasts a full school day,
minus thirty minutes at the beginning for set-up and thirty minutes at the end
for books signing / evaluation.
There is a half-day version of the workshop also available –
you might consider sharing my time with another school nearby or booking a half
day Creative Writing workshop as well. The half day version requires a twenty minute
set-up and a twenty-minute end.
The workshop is limited to up to 36 students, Years 9-13. However,
I’m happy to talk to a whole year group or a hall full of students at the
beginning or the end of the day at no extra cost.
Cost
The cost is normally £400 (£200 for half day) plus travel expenses.
However, any booked by the end of January 2017 will cost just £200 (full days
only but this could be one Schellberg Cycle Workshops and one Creative Writing
Workshop) plus travel expenses. Throughout February 2017 I am accepting bookings
of two for the price of one. These may be half day or full day and can be two
Schellberg Cycle Workshops, two Creative Writing workshops or a combination of
one of each.
My credentials
I am very used to the secondary school classroom. I taught
modern languages for 23 years in various schools and have continued to make school
visits as a writer of fiction for children and young adults. I have been a
university lecturer in Creative Writing for the past nine years and the
Schellberg Cycle came out of a sabbatical project for which I was able to research
some unique materials.