YEAR 8 PREP HOMEWORK
Objective: to learn how to spell key words from the term
How will this homework be assessed: peer assessed spelling test
Task 1: Learn the following spellings
1. Continued
2. Remembering
3. Cracow
4. Contradict
5. Mumbled
6. Exploration
7. Criticized
8. Suspiciously
9. Ointment
10.
Czechoslovakia
Task 2: Read the following research and answer the following questions in full
sentences and in your own words.
The Hitler Youth catered for 10 to 18 year olds. There were separate organisations for boys and girls. The
task of the boys section was to prepare the boys for military service. For girls, the organisation prepared
them for motherhood. Boys at 10, joined the Deutsches Jungvolk (German Young People) until the age of 13
when they transferred to the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) until the age of 18. In 1936, the writer J R Tunus
wrote about the activities of the Hitler Jugend. He stated that part of their "military athletics" (Wehrsport)
included marching, bayonet drill, grenade throwing, trench digging, map reading, gas defence, use of
dugouts, how to get under barbed wire and pistol shooting. Girls, at the age of 10, joined the
Jungmadelbund (League of Young Girls) and at the age of 14 transferred to the Bund Deutscher Madel
(League of German Girls). Girls had to be able to run 60 metres in 14 seconds, throw a ball 12 metres,
complete a 2 hour march, swim 100 metres and know how to make a bed. To the outside world, the Hitler
Youth seemed to personify German discipline. In fact, this image was far from accurate. School teachers
complained that boys and girls were so tired from attending evening meetings of the Hitler Youth, that they
could barely stay awake the next day at school. Also by 1938, attendance at Hitler Youth meetings was so
poor - barely 25% - that the authorities decided to tighten up attendance with the 1939 law making
attendance compulsory.
1. What was the Hitler Youth?
2. What was the difference between the girls’ tasks and the boys’ tasks?
3. What ages did the Hitler Youth apply to?
4. What did the teachers find was a problem in the Hitler Youth?
5. Soon after arriving at Out-With, Gretel joins the Hitler Youth. How does she change in the
novel?
6. How do you think Bruno feels about his sister’s involvement with this organisation?
Challenge: Write the script of a conversation (including stage directions) between
Bruno and Gretel in which Bruno asks her all about it.
Use the information the above box to help you with Gretel’s answers.
Use the following to help you get started…
Bruno: (curiously) Um, Gretel, there was something I wanted to ask you.
Gretel: (impatiently) Well? Do get on with it. What do you want?
Bruno: What’s it like in the Hitler Youth?
Gretel:……………………………………………………………………………………….
Bruno:
Gretel:
Bruno:
Gretel: