Friday, our class did an assignment where we had to be an advisor to the Nazi Party. We were given five questions on what to do in each situation and a "A B C" column that listed our choices. For example, number 1 said "the depression has made Austria weak. Taking over Austria will be very popular in Germany. It will bring many Germans into the Reich. However other countries might oppose you. Your options: A) Try to take over Austria by sending troops to Vienna. B) Try to take over Austria by political pressure. C) Do nothing its not worth annoying France, Britain and Italy" (Hitler's Foreign Policy worksheet). After everyone had chosen, our student teacher told us how many points each option was worth (10, 20, or 30) and in the end we would add up all of our points. The catch to this assignment was the amount of points you had, you would either be rewarded for being a good Nazi or punished for being a terrible Nazi. Once we were done adding up points, she showed us on the slide show who was punished and who was rewarded. 120-150 was punished for being a terrible Nazi and 50-80 were rewarded by being upgraded in their positions as a Nazi advisor. If you had 90-110 (my score was 100), you were a failure as a Nazi but since you had some good ideas, they allowed you to stay in Berlin, Germany. Everyone in the class thought the higher the score, the better. Turned out the less points you had the better Nazi you were. Once we learned what kind of Nazi we were, she told us Hitler's choices and which he did. A lot of my answers were similar to what Hitler did except for two. I really liked this assignment, thought it was fun and a nice break from taking notes from a slide show like we had been doing all week. It was funny when we learned who failed and who was rewarded because of students' reactions. Although, some answers seemed that two options should of had the same amount of points and would have possibly kept some people out of hot water with the Nazi party.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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