Daily Lessons for Teaching Adolf Hitler

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Prologue, part 1, chapters 1, 2, 3 Although readers probably know much about Hitler's reign over Germany and the death of Jews under his leadership, in the beginning of the book we learn about Hitler's parents and his childhood. The objective of this lesson is to study Hitler's childhood and upbringing.

1) 1) Class discussion: Adolf Hitler's father Alois was born with the name Schicklgruber and was...
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