Topic: The partitions of Poland – a repetition lesson

Target group

7th‑grade students of elementary school

Core curriculum

I. Historical chronology. Student:

4 . places processes, phenomena and historical facts in time, and organizes them and establishes cause and effect relationships.

XX. Polish lands in the years 1815 – 1848. Student:

1 . indicates on the map the political division of Polish territories after the Congress of Vienna; (...)

2 . presents the reasons for the outbreak of the November Uprising, the nature of the struggles and consequences of the uprising for Poles in various occupied areas.

3 . discusses the location of Poles in the Prussian and Austrian partitions, in the area of land taken and in the Republic of Krakow;

4 . characterizes the main trends and characters of the Great Emigration and the conspiracy movement in the country.

XXII. January Uprising. Student:

1 . discusses the indirect and direct causes of creation (...);

2 . characterizes insurgent actions including, if possible, the course of the uprising in their region;

3 . discusses the appropriation of peasants in the Russian partition and compares them with the enfranchisement in the other partitions;

4 . characterizes the forms of post‑uprising repressions.

XXIII. Europe and the world in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Student:

4 . lists new political ideas and cultural phenomena, including the beginnings of mass culture and moral changes.

XXIV. Polish lands under the partitions in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Student:

1 . explains the goals and describes the methods of the partitioners' actions towards the inhabitants of the former Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth – Russification, Germanization (Kulturkampf), Galician autonomy;

2 . describes the attitudes of Polish society towards the partitioners – tri‑loyalism, organic work, cooperative movement;

3 . describes the formation of a modern national consciousness of Poles.

General aim of education

The student repeats knowledge and vocabulary regarding the subject: The partitions of Poland

Key competences

• communication in foreign languages;

• digital competence;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• you will talk and discuss topics from the given themes;

• you will consolidate the material from the lessons: „To fight or not to fight?”, „Let's do what we do! Attitudes of Poles under partitions”, „Poles in exile. Foot voting”, „On the paved streets of Paris, and beyond – 19th century Polish culture in exile”, „And this is Poland - Polish culture under partition”;

• you will consolidate the vocabulary learned during the lesson.

Methods/techniques

• activating

  • discussion.

• expository

  • talk.

• programmed

  • with computer;

  • with e‑textbook.

• practical

  • exercices concerned.

• exposing

  • exposition.

Forms of work

• individual activity;

• activity in pairs;

• activity in groups;

• collective activity.

Teaching aids

• e‑textbook;

• notebook and crayons/felt‑tip pens;

• interactive whiteboard, tablets/computers.

Lesson plan overview

Before classes

1. Before the planned repetitive lesson, the teacher asks all students to recall the material of the e‑textbook from the chapter *The partitions of Poland*, and the selected ones, to prepare a crossword, based on the generator included in the abstract, for colleagues to work during the lesson.

Introduction

1. The teacher states the subject of the lesson, explains the aim of the lesson and together with students determines the success criteria to be achieved.

2. The teacher reminds the participants of the classes what subject area the lesson will concern.

Realization

1. Students display interactive crosswords on the interactive board. The task of the others is to guess individual passwords. After each crossword, students assess the questions based on the technique of lights (whether they are clear, logically formulated). The teacher assesses questions in terms of language and provides feedback.

2. Exercise 1. Asking questions. Students use the form to write questions addressed to a friend in order to check the understanding of the text being heard.

3. Exercise 2. Students, using the generator included in the abstract, prepare a test question for a friend based on a text fragment.

4. Students perform an interactive exercise in which they fill in the blanks in a text about the Polish struggle for independence during the partitions.

5. Expanding and enriching English vocabulary in the issues covered in the lesson - students perform language exercise included in the abstract.
   The teacher makes sure that the task has been correctly completed and gives feedback.

Summary

1. The teacher asks: If there was going to be a test on the material we have covered today, what questions do you think would you have to answer?
   If the students do not manage to name all the most important questions, the teacher may complement their suggestions.

Homework

1. Prepare 5 questions about the area that could be found on the test of the lesson.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

The partitions of Poland – a repetition lesson

Links to lessons: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Links to the abstracts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5