A Year 11 class studying the inter-war years works with a partner class at a Gymnasium in Germany, who are learning English. Before the lesson, each class chooses a one-page extract on the Treaty of Versailles from its own current history textbook, the German class translates theirs into English as part of its English lessons, and both classes rank the treaty's main terms by harshness. Both extracts and both rankings go into one Google Doc shared only with the two classes' school accounts, and students annotate them: what each extract stresses (war guilt, reparations, the loss of territory, the "Diktat"), what it leaves out, and how its language judges the treaty. The lesson ends with a class-to-class Teams call hosted by both teachers, where students ask the partner class how they were taught the treaty and whether they think it was fair, then record in their books where the two classes' judgements differ and whether the textbooks explain the gap. Nobody states or tags their own nationality; students speak and comment as members of their class.
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