Overview of lesson themes and options
Lesson options include:
- 15-45 minute staff personalised focus on an issue related to the main themes of Lessons 1-4 OR
- 15-45 minute curriculum area focus agreed by Curriculum Leaders and their teams on an issue related to the main themes of Lessons 1-4 OR
- 15-45 minute focus on an issue related to the main themes of Lessons 1-4 from the resources identified below.
Finally, for everyone after doing either 1, 2, or 3:
5 minute completion of student reflections to be written on their Tallis Celebrates Diversity Passport.
5 minute completion of student reflections to be written on their Tallis Celebrates Diversity Passport.
Period 1. What is diversity at Tallis?
During this session there is a range of options including:
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Diversity in a community is any dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, and national origin. Inclusion is about empowering different groups of people in a community by understanding, respecting and appreciating what makes them different and that they have right to belong in a community and have their interests respected and protected without prejudice.
Diversity and Inclusion allows for the exploration of these differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment. It means understanding one another by surpassing simple tolerance to ensure people truly understand and value their differences. This allows us both to embrace and also to celebrate the rich dimensions of diversity contained within each individual and place positive value on diversity in the community. Societies past and present all over the world have always been diverse. However what has changed overtime is the tolerance that those who exercise power have toward respecting diversity and inclusion.
Period 2. What is the Holocaust and how is it remembered?
During this session there are a range of options including;
- Pursuing your own personalised or curriculum area planning on this theme.
- Watching and talking through the issues raised by "What is the Holocaust?" video.
- Watching and talking through the issues raised by "Yours, Anne Frank" video.
- Thinking about what being intolerant of diversity by governments, organisations and individuals can mean for those people and groups who are discriminated against.
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In 1933 in Germany a government was formed which promoted ideas of intolerance of diversity and it remained in power for 12 years. The government is known as the Nazi government and their intolerance of diversity culminated in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the attempt by the Nazis and their collaborators to murder all the Jews in Europe. With the outbreak of World War Two the systematic murder of Europe’s Jews began and by the end of the Holocaust, six million Jewish men, women and children had been murdered in concentration and extermination camps. In addition to singling out Jews for complete annihilation, the Nazis targeted for discrimination and persecution, anyone they believed threatened their ideal of a ‘pure Aryan race’. Nazi beliefs categorised people by race, and Hitler used the word ‘Aryan’ for his idea of a ‘pure German race’.
Period 3. What other genocides have been committed since 1945?
Holocaust Memorial Day is the day for everyone to remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed after the second world war in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
During this session there are a range of options including:
- Pursuing your own personalised or curriculum area planning on this theme.
- Watching and talking through the issues raised by "Genocide 1945-Present?" video.
- Thinking about what being intolerant of diversity by governments can mean for those individuals and groups who are discriminated against.
- Thinking about one of the Case Studies of Genocides since 1945 from those below.
Cambodia 1975-79From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, imposed an extremist programme to reconstruct Cambodia. Millions of people died through starvation and execution.
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Rwanda 1994In a violent outpouring in 1994, approximately one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered in just 100 days in the Genocide in Rwanda.
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Bosnia 1995In July 1995, against the backdrop of an ongoing civil war, Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladić murdered around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica.
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Darfur 2003-presentIn 2003 a civil war began in the region of Darfur. Arab militia, known as the Janjaweed attacked black African people, destroying entire villages and murdering civilians.
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Period 4. Responses to and Regeneration from Genocides.
During this session there are a range of options including:
- Pursuing your own personalised or curriculum area planning on this theme.
- Watching and talking through the issues raised by the themes:
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Responses of the Arts to the Holocaust:
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Art |
Poetry |
Music |
Keeping the Memory Alive
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Survivor Testimony
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Messages for the future
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