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Do You Take the Oath? Lesson PlanDo You Take the Oath? Lesson Plan
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Facing History and Ourselves
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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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Do You Take the Oath?

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This Do You Take the Oath? lesson plan also includes:
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  • Do You Take the Oath? (Part One)
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Why did so many go along with Nazi policies during World War II? An investigatory unit includes four handouts, reading analyses, classroom discussion topics, and intriguing philosophical questions, helping learners understand the correlation between both obedience and evil, and obedience and good.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

authority, civil disobedience, resistance, rebellions, fears, conformity, peer pressure, world war ii, nazism, the axis powers, german history, germany

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Teach scholars about the Milgram experiment, a psychological study about the power of obedience 

Classroom Considerations

  • Suggests reading two linked chapters before beginning
  • Builds on previous lessons in the 17-part series

Pros

  • Contributes useful handouts
  • Builds critical thinking skills
  • Scaffolds subject matter
  • Assessment and extension activities further reinforce learning

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.9 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9

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