Scheme of work: PSHE/Citizenship Extremism
Lesson objectives:
To consider what could be one to prevent terrorism.
Starter:
5 minutes: (slide 2) students are to be given a list of punishable activities and they are to decide how they would punish each of the activities.
Introduction/Modelling
15 minutes (slide 3): Students are given 5 minutes to decide in small groups what they would do to counteract terrorism. They could jot down their ideas in a mind map.
As a class they will have one representative from each group share how they would combat terrorism. Each person in the class will use worksheet 1 to write down whether they agree with these ideas or not (10 minutes)
5 minutes (slides 4-8): Teacher to introduce the idea of ID cards as a way of preventing terrorism. Students discuss whether these are a good idea or not.
5 minutes (slide 9): Students can make their own ID cards. They decide the information which is important to go in there to determine what governments need to know to fight terrorism.
5 Minutes (slides 10-11): Students then make a list of positives and negatives of using CCTV.
Students then shown a clip about the George Orwell book, 1984. Students debate where they think monitoring too highly could lead to a ‘big brother state ’(see extra information.)
5 minutes (slide 12): Watch clip about Britain and the importance of freedom of speech even in light of terrorism.
10 minutes (slide 13): Students are to imagine they are the leader of a new futuristic society. There are terrorist groups rebelling against their peaceful democratic society. They will have to determine how they will run society to prevent this. / Learning points
Students begin to consider different ways that people and the government could fight terrorism. They will explore problems faced by governments in doing this, and why it is not an easy war to face.
Students are able to further consider an idea for fighting terrorism and evaluate different views towards this.
Students are able to consider what information they want to be shared and what they think should remain private.
Allows further evaluation of privacy and protection.
Students able to explore the importance of freedom of speech in Britain today.
Consolidation of learning on how they would combat terrorism in the UK.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
This is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949.The novel is set in Airstri One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrimes."
The country is led by a Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality but who may not even exist. The Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.’ The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party, who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to rewrite past newspaper articles, so that the historical record always supports the party line. Smith is a diligent and skillful worker but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother.