A Lesson Plan About Reparation

 Shaelyn Addison

Harris

English 2016

4/30/2023

A Lesson Plan About Reparation

Overview:

In these activities, students explore the concept of reparations and watch testimony to learn about different individuals' experiences on what they went through and how they got their reparations. Then they will complete assignments to have a better understanding of how reparations were used in global conflicts.

Target Audience: 9th grade American History

Activity Duration: 2 months

Learning Objectives: 

  • Student will define the reparations

  • Students will learn about the experience for reparations

Background Information:

 Reparations is defined as the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. Many nations throughout history have failed and others were successful.

 United States:

President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, the government apologized for Japanese American interment during WWII and paid $20,000 to each survivor to compensate for loss of property and liberty during that period.

Germany:

The Germany government paid $86.6 billion (about $270 per person in the US) to Holocaust victims for 14 years. In 1988 they paid 125 million for reparations enabling the remaining Holocaust victims to receive $290 for the rest of their life. In 1999 they also compensate Jews and non-Jews for “slave and forced they did in German industry during wartime.

Materials Needed:

  • Tablets

  • Mixer roles, cut up one for every student, blank name tags

  • Copies of role play questions about reparations

Role Play Activity:

Reconstructing the South: A Role Play, Author Bill Bigelow. The students will be put into groups of 2 or 3 and read over their part and present it in the next class period.

Writing and Video Assignment: Students will read two articles and watch 1 video for an entire week then for homework they will write their thoughts on them. And will swap with each other to read their point of view.

Testimony Video: This activity goes along with the writing and video assignment: Student will watch Meta Doran, she was born in Hamburg Germany on February 1st, 1926, she was an only child, her family was deported to Portland because her father had a polish citizenship.

Discussion: Teacher will write a question on the board “How Can They Make Amends” and students will take 10 minutes to write down their answers that will be discussed in the next class.

Presentation: Students will do their presentations on the discussion question. In groups of four they can use visual aids and Wikipedia for sources. This will be presented before Christmas break.

Making Connections: 

Student to Student: Will talk about their feelings toward reparations and slavery.

Students and Global Events: Students will make the connection of two reparation on global conflicts of their choice.

Connection for the Future: Students will develop their own forms of reparations and how they should be implemented by the government.






Reference Page:

“Https://Collections.ushmm.org/Search/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Gabriela+Katz&search_field=all_fields.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://collections.ushmm.org/search/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Gabriela%2BKatz&search_field=all_fields.

Davis, Allen J. “An Historical Timeline of Reparations Payments Made From 1783 through 2023 by the United States Government, States, Cities, Religious Institutions, Universities, Corporations, and Communities” Reparations in the United States. UMass Amherst Libraries, 21 Mar. 2023. Mon. 1 Apr. 2023.< https://guides.library.umass.edu/reparations >.

. “reparation with healing” www.teachingwithtestimony.com. Discovery Education, Apr. 2018. Mon. 1 Apr. 2023.< 

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