I’m now working on a further section of materials for my
workshop. These are discovery packs. There is one for each of the main
characters:
- Renate
- Hani
- Clara
- Käthe
- Gisela
- The school girls
I’m also bringing in
a gender balance so I’m including:
·
Hans Edler (Renate’s father)
·
Christoph (the young man who helped at the house
on Schellberg Street)
·
Karl Schubert (the man who ran the school in the
house on Schellberg Street)
·
Ernst Lehrs
(Käthe’s brother)
·
Thomas (Gisela’s neighbour)
·
All about the Hitler Youth
These are all taking quite a long
time to create. I’m providing six sheets of A4 for each character. Each sheet contains
a mixture of materials:
·
Facsimiles of real documents
·
Useful links
·
Public domain pictures or ones to which I own
the copyright
·
Extracts form the novels
Groups of up to six students should work on one character.
There are probably twice as many characters as needed here. Each sheet hints at
information and should prompt further questioning in the students. I’m suggesting
in an hour’s lesson they spend forty minutes or so on this, aiming for each group
to spend up to five minutes presenting to the rest of the class any extra information
they’ve found out using the packs. They could of course also lead to a much
larger piece of work.
I also intend to create some creative writing prompts to go
with each activity.