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LESSON THREE
Sacrifice:
Hong Kong and
Dieppe
Grade: ten
Time: One period (70 minutes)
- Digital Collections Used:
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Canadian Military Medals and Decorations
Handout:
Expectations:
Students will:
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use historical evidence to support an argument
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present an argument orally
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defend an argument in a debate context
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write an argumentative paragraph (time permitting)
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define terms: Hong Kong, Dieppe Raid, P.O.W., Geneva Convention
Preparation:
- Ensure that Internet access is available for first
ten minutes of period.
- If textbook does not adequately describe the defence
of Hong Kong or Dieppe Raid, prepare a brief lesson on the goals, events,
and outcomes of these tragic missions.
- Consider how you would re-arrange desks for a debate.
Lesson Plan:
- Students go to Canadian Military Medals site in Digital Collections
to answer the question, "What do Hong Kong and Dieppe (France) have in
common?" (Veterans of both missions receive bars for their uniforms
instead of medals). Create speculation as to why these two missions
appear different than others.
- Using the textbook (or lesson), students will learn about the goals,
events, and results of these missions (take the perspective that they
were doomed from the onset but carried out nonetheless). Also
discuss the different treatment that Canadian POWs received from German
and Japanese soldiers, introducing the Geneva Convention.
- Divide class in half, instructing each side to prepare to defend
answer to the question, "Should Canada have participated in these hopeless
missions?" Each student must share, aloud, an argument for their side.
Once all have spoken, each side can address the other in debate style until
consensus is achieved or becomes impossible.
- Students add to their "World War II Glossary":
- Hong Kong
- Dieppe Raid
- P.O.W.
- Geneva Convention
- Remaining time can be used to write a one paragraph response
to the debate question, taking whichever side the student found most convincing.
Response should include a thesis sentence and a concluding sentence.
Evaluation Opportunities:
- participation mark for appropriate behaviour
in large group.
- participation mark for appropriate contribution
to debate.
- mark for one paragraph response (time permitting).
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