History teachers: Any advice for a DI lesson plan on the Holocaust?
Hello there! I'm a preservice teacher in the trenches of finals for my master's program and I need to come up with a direct instruction model lesson plan for my learning target: I can analyze how Nazi racial beliefs and policies led to the persecution of Jews and other groups during the Holocaust.
I was thinking of starting the class with a group schema map and then having them read primary sources but now that I'm typing it out, I'm just so lost on how I'm going to execute the lesson. Maybe it's burnout from making two lesson plans yesterday after work but I feel paralyzed right now. How do I make a "I do, we do, you do" with this? And then how and what do I assess?
Does anybody have any advice? I'm on a time crunch so I'll be open to anything!
Thank you and thank you so much for all you do! I know living in the world right now as a teacher must feel like being awake during surgery, but you're still serving this vital role!!! I admire you, I aspire to be you, and we as a people would be nothing without teachers.
Posted Nov 5, 2025, 11:44 PM UTC