Lithuania Lesson Plans - LessonCorner

1. Walk a Quote: A Lesson Based Upon the Sugihara Story - Valerie Person
...at a person's individual choices and actions can make a profound difference in the lives of others. The focus of this lesson directs students toward understanding the immense potential each of us has in making an impact on humanity. Passage to Freedom details how Chiune Sugihara, Japanese consul to Lithuania, wrote visas for Jewish refugees from Poland in spite of the Japanese government's instructions not to do so. Seen from the point of view of Sugiihara's five-year-old son Hiroki, the story is a testimony to a man's courage to do the right thing. Objectives Students will examine the roles of rescue a...

2. Foreign Policy Simulation
...NATIONS Can meet directly with the Soviet Union Appendix 5 Hypothetical Foreign Policy Cases THE SOVIET UNION - Mikhail Gorbachev has been removed from office after a coup by Kremlin hardliners. The new president and Communist party general Yegor Ligachev has ordered Soviet troops to crack down on Lithuania, Georgia, and other breakaway republics. In violence reminiscent of that in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Hungary in 1956 Soviet troops massacre thousands of people who demonstrate for freedom. Lithuanian president Landsbergis escapes to the American embassy where he applies for political asylum. The S...

3. Golden Birthday Ball Lesson Plan
...4 years and older. Close adult supervision is required to ensure children's safety. Adaptations Research other countries to discover how birthdays are celebrated. For instance, in Mexico a large party is given to girls on their 15th birthday. Russians eat birthday pie, birthday chairs are common in Lithuania and Holland, and a birthday flag is hung outside the house of the birthday person who lives in Denmark. Younger children and those with special needs could each make a ball for their birthday. Sing "Happy Birthday" in the home languages of children in the group or neighborhood. Ask family members to...

4. NATO-Russia SCORE Activity
...legs test the Senate should use. The Task You will serve in the delegation to the NATO sponsored 43 nation Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) from at least the following 14 of those countries: (1) the United Kingdom; (2) France; (3) the United States; (4) Russia; (5) Estonia; (6) Latvia; (7) Lithuania; (8) Italy; (9) Ukraine; (10) Czech Republic; (11) Poland; (12) Hungary; (13) Germany; and (14) Kazakhstan. Your job will be to represent your nation's interests to the best of your ability and at the same time create a positive climate that will insure peace as well as security for all nations invo...

5. EU constitution
...eet by clicking Guides on the link in the blue box. 1. Which two countries have recently rejected the new set of rules for the European Union? Netherlands and France. 2. Which nine countries have agreed to accept the new set of rules for the European Union? Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. 3. How many countries have to agree to the new set of rules for it to become law? All 25 European Union members. Reviews 4. What could be the benefits of having one set of rules for all 25 countries in the European Union? It could bring people in the 25 countries close...

6. Jewish Folktales
...c folktales. One of the characters in the first story is the Baal Shem Tov (Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer) who was from a small village in the Ukraine near the Polish border. In the second and third story, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev is also from the Ukraine. Rabbi Schneur Zalman is associated with Lithuania. On a map, locate the Ukraine and Lithuania and give their absolute locations (longitude and latitude). Give their relative locations (general descriptors of where the places are located). + In a brainstorming session, have the learners describe the Ukraine and Lithuania as places by listing recogni...

7. IATEFL POLAND COMPUTER SIG JOURNAL - Internet Lesson Plans
...IATEFL PL home page Computer Special Interest Group Teaching English with Technology A Journal for Teachers of English ISSN 1642-1027 Vol. 3, Issue 3 (July 2003) Internet Lesson Plans LEARNER GENERATED QUIZZES by Galina Kavaliauskiene Journal Contents Universitas Studiorum Polona Vilnensis Vilnius, Lithuania gkaval@mail.lt Editor's Message Articles Introduction Lesson Plans Word from Techie This contribution touches upon the creative classroom activity which involves learners in quiz generation. Software Generally speaking, setting-up exercises is supposed to be a teacher's prerogative. Given the time a...

8. What Is Government?
...by government by one or a small group with rule by force as the contributing to LEAGUE norm) and democracy (rule by the citizens of a nation). Ask /LTG today. students for examples of each style (dictatorship: Iraq, Cuba, former Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany; and democracy: United States, Germany, Lithuania, Russia). Ask students to provide examples of what life might be like living under a dictatorship. Discuss the differences between representative democracy ( citizens elect officials to represent them in government; also called a republic) and direct democracy (voters in a community meet in one plac...

9. World War II
...Jewish Percentage of Jewish Casualties Casualties Poland 2,500,000 85% 3,300,000 Soviet 1,500,000 Union (occupied 2,100,000 71.4% area) Romania 425,000 50.0% 850,000 Hungary 200,000 49.5% 404,000 260,000 Czechoslovakia 315,000 82.5% 90,000 30.0% France 300,000 Germany 170,000 81.0% 210,000 135,000 Lithuania 150,000 90.0% 90,000 Holland 150,000 60.0% Latvia 85,000 89.5% 95,000 40,000 Belgium 90,000 44.4% Greece 60,000 80.0% 75,000 55,000 Yugoslavia 75,000 73.3% 40,000 66.6% Austria 60,000 Italy 15,000 26.3% 57,000 7,000 14.0% Bulgaria 50,000 6,000 Miscellaneous 20,000 30.0% Totals 5,978,000 72.0% 8,301,...

10. Life Prior to Kristallnacht (1933-1938) - Jacqueline Littlefield
...of Europe? (9.5 million) 7. In 1933, which countries made up central Europe? (Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Danzig) 8. In prewar central Europe, where was the largest Jewish community located? (Germany) 9. In 1933, which countries made up eastern Europe? (Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Soviet Union) 10. Which eastern country in prewar Europe had the largest Jewish population and what was it? (Poland, 3 million) 11. In eastern Europe, what was the name given to the predominately Jewish towns or villages in which many Jews lived? (shtetls) 12. What language did the...