1. Lesson 4 and 5 - The Blitz
In order to make progress this lesson you will:
Understand what happened during the Blitz.
Empathise with people who lived through the Blitz.
Starter: Listen to the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declaring war on (Nazi-)Germany on 3. September, 1939.
“It is all clear. Germany and Hitler can only be stopped by force!”
How would this have made you feel if you were listening to this on your radio?

2. What was the Blitz? On 7 September 1940 the first big air raid
hit London.
After that London and other major cities
were bombed night after night.
The Blitz did not end until May 1941.
By that time 1,400,000 people were made
homeless in London alone.
Across the UK 43,000 people were killed.
It started at 5 p.m. and lasted until 4.30 the next morning

4. How do you think this lady feels?
Imagine if this was your street. How would you feel to find it like this after an air raid?

5. This happened to thousands of people. How did they feel?
A family’s experience.
‘’ When morning came we left the public shelter and made our way home. There was no home. All that was left was a pile of bricks. We had no where to live except the public air raid shelter, and that was to be our house for six months.’’
This happened to thousands of people. How did they feel?

6. Houses and buildings damaged and destroyed
People killed or injured
Thousands of people made homeless

7. Man United forced to play all their home games at Maine Road(Man City)
How did this make people feel?
Bomb crater
Old Trafford cricket ground
Man United forced to play all their home games at Maine Road(Man City)
Old Trafford football ground

8. What does the ‘Spirit of the Blitz’ mean?

9. What do these pictures tell us about how people dealt with the air raids?
Manchester Cathedral, bombed on Christmas Eve, 1940
Service at Manchester Cathedral, Christmas Day 1940

10. What are the people doing in these pictures?
What does it tell us about their attitude to the Blitz?

11. ‘WAR’S GREATEST PICTURE: St
‘WAR’S GREATEST PICTURE: St. Paul’s Stands UNHARMED in the Midst of the Burning City.’

12. What is happening in your images?
What can you work out about the Blitz from the images?
A questions I would like to ask.....
What is happening in your images?

13. Senses game The senses game
Using the Blitz picture in front of you describe what the people of Britain could..
Senses game
1) Hear
The senses game
2) see
4) Touch/feel
3) Smell
Extension- Explain in detail what you can see happening in the picture.

14. Describe what it was like to experience the Blitz.
What was the Blitz like?
Describe what it was like to experience the Blitz.
Your task write a brief account explaining your experience of the Blitz you must use the pictures and the sources we have looked at in today’s lesson to help you.

15. Questions
What was the Blitz?
What were the effects of the Blitz?
What was Hitler’s plan?
How did the government try to confuse German bombers?
How did morale help Britain defeat Germany?

16. Match the air raid precaution to the reason it was introduced
All lights covered or switched off to make finding a target difficult from the air.
To save the children from being hurt or killed
To cover the face and protect people in the event of a gas attack.
To know who your friends and enemies were.
A person who helped people before, during and after an air raid.
A shelter from falling bombs and debris during an air raid.
Black out
Gas masks
Identity cards
Air raid shelters
Air raid warden
Evacuation

17. What is Censorship?
Hitler’s plan was clear. He wanted to bomb Britain into giving up. How did the British Government respond?
Newspapers not allowed to show mutilated bodies or smashed houses.
Reports concentrated on the heroism (bravery) of the rescue services.
Films showed people’s determination to carry on as normally as possible, working together in good humour.

18. KEEPING UP MORALE YOUR TASK
You work for the Government Censorship Board. Your job is to make sure you do not publish any stories or pictures that might lower the morale of the British public.
We will look at a number of photographs. Study each one carefully and decide whether you will allow it to be published in a newspaper or not.
List all your reasons for selecting or rejecting the photographs in your books.
Write a caption next to each one you choose to publish.

19. Pictures to use for task

25. Manchester in the Blitz

33. Connect
Watch the video clip. Write down all the advice that is given to keep someone safe during an air raid