Lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 3

TODAY:

- Spend some time looking at the setting of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - group work!

- Look at chapter 1 and answer questions in the yellow book (for exam). 

- Learn how to analyse writing

- Watch a review of book and film 

Work in a team of maximum 4 people.  You will find out information on a word I will give you.  Then you will explain what you have found out to the rest of the class.

- 5 minutes to research 

- Hint: www.ushmm.org/outreach 

DEATH TRAINS

• Used to transport the condemned to camps, where they would be murdered.  
• Also called Holocaust trains
• Conditions on the trains were awful - little water, food, sanitation 
• They were told they were going to work camps
• Nearly 6 million Jews were killed 

FUHRER

• Means leader
•  Used by leader of the Nazi party 1934-1945
• Austrian-born, German leader
• Hitler adopted this word

AUSCHWITZ

• Largest camp 
• 1 million Jews were killed here
•  Located in Poland (occupied by Germany during the war)
• 1940-1942
• Liberated by the Soviet army 

GESTAPO

• Secret State Police of Germany in WWII 
• Operated above the law
• murdered and tortured prisioners 

SWASTIKA

• Symbol associated with Nazi party 
• A religious symbol in other countries 
• In the West is now a symbol of white supremacy

THE RESISTANCE

• Those who did not cooperate with the leading party 
• Some hid Jews
• Still only a small percentage of the population that actively tried to resist 

When was the story set? 

Why are we learning about these symbols/words? 

Chapter 1

Introduction to family and setting

"One afternoon when Bruno came home, he was surprised to find Maria, the family's maid - who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet - standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates [....]" 

"his mother had always told him to treat Maria respectfully and not just imitate the way Father spoke to her. "

• What does this tell you? 

What do we learn about the mother from these sentences: 

"Bruno's mother had just appeared. She was a tall woman with long red hear that she bundled into a sort of net behind her head, and she was twisting her hands together nervously"

"she couldn't have applied her make-up correctly that morning because the rims of her eyes were more red than usual"  

What do we learn about the move? 

Bruno asks his mother:  "Am I being sent away?" "No, not just you" she said, looking as if she might smile for a moment but thinking better of it.  'We all are, Your father and I, Gretel and you. All four of us"

Did you notice? 

"''Come downstairs with me' said mother, leading the way towards the dining room where the Fury had been to dinner the week before." 

"because there were always so many visitors to the house - men in fantastic uniforms, women with typewriters, that he had to keep his mucky hands off - and they were always very polite to Father and told each other that he was a man to watch and the Fury had big things in mind for him".

• You should now have some answers to the first questions in the yellow book.  Write them down in your own words.
• You should have an idea how to do this for the following chapters.
• Continue reading and answering the questions in the yellow book.

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