The boy in the striped pyjamas

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Today's lesson

- Review of last week

- Discussing chapter 7 - 12

- Themes: Discrimination and inequality

- Exercise

What did we learn last week?

Do you remember who the story is about?

Main character

Luitenant, cruel

Bruno's sister

Servant in Bruno's house

Maid in the household

Boy in the striped pyjama

Bruno's tutor

Kotler

Bruno

Maria

Gretel

Shmuel

Liszt

Pavel

What did we learn last week?

Chapters 1 to 6

- Bruno moves away from Berlin a house near 'Out-With', a concentration camp.

- Bruno sees the people in the concentration camp, they wear grey striped pyjamas.

- Bruno's father is a nazi commander, he works for 'the Fury' (Bruno's name for Hitler)

- We read how badly Lieutentant Kotler treats Pavel, one of the Jewish prisoners

- Pavel was a doctor before he was in 'Out-With'

- Herr Liszt starts teaching Gretel and Bruno about Germany's history

- Bruno meets Schmuel, the boy in the striped pyjamas.

Chapter 7 - 12

Who can summarize what happened?

Why does Bruno join Shmuel on the other side of the fence?

1. He likes the striped pyjamas
2. To look for Schmuel's father
3. He wants to know how it feels like to be there
4. He wants to help Pavel

What happened to Bruno and Schmuel in the end?

Why doesn't Bruno try to escape when they are led into the gas chamber?

After reading the book, how do you feel?

Were your first impressions of the book correct?

1. yes
2. no

How do you feel about the way the people in the pyjamas are treated?

Would you recommend this book to people?

Yes

Maybe

No

The last sentence of the book is: 'Of course, all of this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happen again. Not in this day and age.'
Do you think this is true?

Yes

No

Discrimination and inequality

Discrimination is when a person is treated differently (not in a good way) because of some aspect (onderdeel) of their identity. It is against the law.

Someone could be disciminated against because of:

- Race

- Religion

- Age

- Gender

- Sexuality

- And more!

Discrimination and inequality

Social inequality (sociale ongelijkheid) means people have different opportunities, human rights and quality of life.

- Some people have more money and goods than others.

- Some people have peaceful and stable governments, others do not.

- Some people live in area's that are safer and have better facilities (voorzieningen)

Inequality exists within single countries but also worldwide.

Have you, or anyone you know, ever felt discriminated against?

Yes

No

How did that make you/them feel?

Exercise

- Stand in a line, side to side.

- Teachers reads out staments

- If the statement is TRUE for you, take one step forward

- If you do not want to react truthfully to certain statements because it is too personal or a sensitive topic for you, feel free to do so.

Let's go to the school gym!

If you ever felt treated like this, how did this make you feel?

Literature

The boy in the striped pyjamas is a popular book but does not say much about Britain. Intrigued to read more? 

Look at the suggestions in the next slides.

this book paints a realistic picture of what the second world war was like for a child. The second world war was traumatic and frightening for children, and those being evacuated had to be very brave. 

It’s 1945, and Lorna Anderson’s life on her father’s farm in Scotland consists of endless chores and rationing.So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country?

At the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin, the train that secretly took nearly 10,000 children out of Nazi territory to safety in England. Taken in by strangers who soon become more like family than her real parents

Now let's go to the hall, we have a special assignment for you all!

Race of life

All students on a line

Draw a second line 50 metres away

Tell them there is a prize for the person who crosses the line first

Now tell them to take 2 steps forward if:

- Their parents are still together

- They grew up with a father figure in the home

- They had someone to help them with school if needed

- They never had to worry about money for the basic things

- Never had to care for their family members

- They never had to help pay the bills at home

- Get an allowance

- they were born in The Netherlands

Now ask the students in the front to turn around.

Every statement made by the teacher, every or any progress made by students have nothing to do with anything the students have done or accomplishes. They are a part of being born ‘right’. We all know now that everyone in the front has a better opportunity to win the race. Doesn’t mean the people in the back aren’t going to fight for it. But they have a disadvantages that are harder to overcome, just because of where they come from in a social context. If some people didn’t have the advantages they were GIVEN, they would get beaten by people who were dealt a more difficult hand.

TREAT EVERYONE THE SAME, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR BACKGROUND IS. LEARN FROM EACHOTHER, TALK TO EACHOTHER, GIVE EVERYONE THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES AND GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER.