GC1 2. Who am I - lesson 3 - Own history

• Global Citizenship
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lesson you...

- will have gained knowledge about your classmates and their background

- you can ask and answer questions

Who are you?

Last lesson you were asked you to write a short text about who you are. 

Go  and sit next to someone you do not really know  very well yet.

Tell the person sitting next to you what you have written down and switch roles when you have finished your turn.

Get together in small groups and discuss the following questions: 

•  “What was the experience of flight or migration of the families in the class? Is there more than you expected? 
• Did you or your classmates know about this migration before? What was the experience of those family members? How did it affect their lives? How old were they? Did they go to school or did they work? What did they do? 
• What, if anything, is the difference between this migration and the migration that is happening now? Does this change the way you think about people who are migrating now?” 

Does this change the way you think
about people who are migrating now?”

Bring the class together again, ask students to share their answers to this last question. Ask students what

they know about forced migration happening now, and share some of the information in teacher's

introduction to build on their knowledge. (10 minutes)

Name the 2 most interesting things you've learned about your classmates today!

The aim of this exercise is to understand that migration is not a new

phenomenon and that people have been migrating throughout history.

Many families have experienced migration in the past or recently and it

is important that students see this as part of everyone’s history. For

example, migration across Europe was extensive before, during and

after the second world war and in the 1950's and 1960's migration from

the Caribbean islands to Europe became significant. 

Homework

Make a family tree of your family, not just with their names but also with their birthplaces. 

Use a world map/ map of Europe/ map of the Netherlands to draw or colour the different cities/countries.

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