Daily Lessons for Teaching Schindler's List

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: The prologue begins with Oskar Schindler on his way to a dinner in a German concentration camp. Many characters are introduced, both German and Jewish. The objective of this lesson is to compare and contrast the setting and characters with which Keneally opens the book, and explore the author's possible reasons for doing so.

1) 1. In-Class Assignment:
Choose one German character and one Jewish...
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