Topic: This is Poland! - Polish culture during the partitions

Target group

7th‑grade students of elementary school

Core curriculum

7th‑grade students of elementary school (new core curriculum)

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

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

General aim of education

The students gets to know the most outstanding Polish artists from the period of partitions forming on Polish soil.

Key competences

• communication in foreign languages;

• digital competence;

• learning to learn.

Criteria for success
The student will learn:

• to describe the most eminent Polish artists of the second half of the 19th century;

• to list their most distinguished works;

• to explain how they influenced the Poles during the partitions of Poland;

• to explain the meaning of the statement „for making bold the hearts”.

Methods/techniques

• activating

  • discussion.

• expository

  • talk.

• programmed

  • with computer;

  • with e‑textbook.

• practical

  • exercices concerned.

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. Students should have knowledge about Polish creators in exile and how the Poles were treated in the lands of three partitions (Russification, Germanization, Galician autonomy).

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 introduces students to the topic of the lesson. He asks what positions the partitioning powers took against Poles living in their lands. In which of the partitioning powers the Poles had the most freedom?.

3. The students lists the most important Polish artists working in exile and their works. The teacher asks if they know any artists, writers, painters (people of culture and art) who at that time were working in Poland. Students should associate at least Henryk Sienkiewicz and Stanisław Wyspiański..

Realization

1. The teacher divides the class into four groups. Each of the groups gets one of the Polish artists – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Stanisław Wyspiański, Stanisław Moniuszko or Jan Matejko.

2. Then the teacher introduces the students to the project: the students use the available sources, including the internet, to search for information about each of the creators. They use information aquired from at least two or three different sources / studies, etc. Then they play the role of the manager (impresario). Their task is to present and advertise their creator to the class and teacher, in such a way that they would like to hire him to perform an for them: for example paint a picture, write an opera / play a concert, write a novel or prepare a theater performance. They have 20 minutes for the preparation, and 3 minutes for the presentation itself.

3. Students perform **Exercise 1** and **Command 1**.

Summary

1. The teacher asks the students questions about the artists discussed during today's lesson. He asks students: Were there any artists among them that they had not heard about before? What did they learn about the artists? How did the people evaluate their work the past? Which of the creators was the closest to them and why?.

2. Students carry out ** Exercise 2 **.

3. The teacher sums up the lesson. He remembers to give students feedback on their work during the lesson.

Homework

1. When preparing and collecting information about your hero, you used various websites and sources. Which ones were the most reliable and which ones were the least? Which were the most useful and which left much to be desired? Why do you think it is so?.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

This is Poland! - Polish culture during the partitions

In the Russian partition, representatives of Polish culture had to struggle with censorship. The only partition where Poles were relatively free to speak out was Galicia (Austrian partition). In spite of all this, many works were created on Polish soil, the basic aim of which was to „make bold the hearts”. They were supposed to develop and preserve Polish national identity so that it could survive the difficult period of the partitions. This became particularly important after the collapse of the January Uprising. Historical events were often the source of inspiration. Among the greatest artists of this period were novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, playwright Stanisław Wyspiański and painter Jan Matejko.