"BYDGOSTIA BARGEES" PROJECT

I. Vocabulary (terms):

 

• City rights - city privilages.

• Swedish Deluge (Potop szwedzki) - denotes a series of mid-17th-century campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky (Chmielnicki) Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovoin 1667, thus comprising the Polish theatres of the Russo-Polish and Second Northern Wars.

• Partitions of Poland - (1772, 1793, 1795), three territorial divisions of Poland, perpetrated by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, by which Poland’s size was progressively reduced until, after the final partition, the state of Poland ceased to exist.

• Prussia - (1) the land of the Prussians on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which came under Polish and German rule in the Middle Ages; (2) the kingdom ruled from 1701 by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, including Prussia and Brandenburg, with Berlin as its capital, which seized much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries and united Germany under its leadership in 1871; and (3) the Land (state) created after the fall of the Hohenzollerns in 1918, which included most of their former kingdom and which was abolished by the Allies in 1947 as part of the political reorganization of Germany after its defeat in World War II.

• Duchy of Warsaw - was a Polish state established by Napoleon I in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit.

• Treaties of Tilsit - were two agreements signed by Napoleon I of France in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland. The first was signed on 7 July, between Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon I of France, when they met on a raft in the middle of the Neman River. The second was signed with Prussia on 9 July.

• November Uprising - an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.

• Greater Poland Uprising - military insurrection by Poles in the land of Greater Poland against the Prussian forces.

• Poznan Uprising - was an unsuccessful military insurrection of Poles against Prussian forces, during the Spring of Nations period.

• "DAG Fabrik Bromberg" - In 1939-1945, one of the biggest armaments factories designed for the military activities of the Third Reich was built in the Bydgoszcz Forest. The conglomerate of secret production of gunpowder and ammunition, built by forced labor, was one of the companies of the enterprise Dynamit-Aktien Gesellschaft (DAG), which roots date back to the 1860s. During that time, Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and smokeless powder, the later founder of the famous Nobel Prize, established a company, which became the biggest manufacturer of explosive materials in Germany. The company had its heyday during the years of the Nazi regime. It manufactured such products as nitrocellulose, smokeless powder, dinitrobenzene, trinitrotoluene and – in the NGL Zone – nitroglycerine..

 

II. Historical figures:

 

• Casmir III the Great - (born April 30, 1310, Kujawy, Poland—died November 5, 1370), king of Poland from 1333 to 1370, called “the Great” because he was deemed a peaceful ruler, a “peasant king,” and a skillful diplomat. Through astute diplomacy he annexed lands from western Russia and eastern Germany. Within his realm he unified the government, codified its unwritten law, endowed new towns with the self-government of the Magdeburg Law, and founded Poland’s first university, at Kraków, in 1364.

• King Frederick II the Great of Prussia - was King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He became known as Frederick the Great (Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed Der Alte Fritz ("Old Fritz") by the Prussian people.

 

III. Dates:

 

• 19 April 1346: Bydgoszcz received the city rights from King Casimir the Great

• 1655-1657: Swedish Deluge - Bydgoszcz was almost completely destroyed (Bydgoszcz's castle included)

• 1772: First Partition of Poland - Bydgoszcz was incorporated into Prussia, its name was changed into 'Bromberg' 

• 1773-1774: Bydgoszcz's Canal was built thanks to order of the King Frederick II the Great of Prussia

• 1807: Bydgoszcz bacame a part of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw according to the Treaty of Tilsit

• 1815: Bydgoszcz once again in Prussia's hands, this time bacame a part of Grand Duchy of Poznan (Province of Pozen from 1848)

• 1830: The November Uprising

• 1846: The Greater Poland Uprising

• 1848: The Poznan Uprising

• 1851: railroad connection with Berlin in Bydgoszcz

• 1871: the whole Province of Pozen was incorporated into the German Empire

• 1896: electric trams appeared on the streets of Bydgoszcz

• January 20, 1920:  as a result of the agreements after First World War (1914-1918), Bydgoszcz returned to Poland 

• September 3, 1939: the Bromberg Bloody Sunday

• September 5, 1939: Nazi German troops entered the city during Second World War (1939-1945)

• 1945: Bydgoszcz was seized by the Soviet Russia's Red Army 

• 1945: the Pomeranian Voivodeship was created

• 1950: the Pomeranian Voivodeship was renamed into Bydgoszcz's Voivodeship

 

IV. Group work and sharing roles. In each class there should be a:

 

• Leader who focuses work around the learning task and organizes group work

• Vice-Leader - only in classes where the number of students is bigger than 8 - is helping the leader to focus all group members around the task

• Secretary (-ies) compile(s) group member's ideas on the fieldwork book on groups' organizer and taking notes during the excursion

• Time-keeper(s) encourage(s) the group to stay on task and is recording the time when the excursion arrives on each place, is informed by the field trip guardians how much time each group is going to have in order to take photos, preparing sketches, etc.

• Research Investigator(s) is/are responsible for being in touch with the field trip guardians in order to ask question(s) considering the fieldtrip activities

• Errand Monitor(s) is/are responsible for getting supplies to the group

• Photographer(s) is/are taking photos during the fieldtrip and share their products with the group members in order to produce a fieldwork book

• Painter(s) is/are responsible for drawing sketches of the most important buildings, streets, etc. during the excursion

• Designer(s) is/are respinsible for planning the final outfit of the fieldwork book and for presentation.

 

 

V. Final product - each class's fieldwork book in a written form about Bydgoszcz between 1939-1945 including:

 

• cover page with a title, place where it was published and year (you can decide on additional photos, sketch(es) of building(s), etc.),

• table of contents,

• introduction which should inform a reader about the goal of the field trip, what it covers (the route), the class's authors and their roles,

• main body, so 12 places from our route, sketch(es) and/or photos of the most important buildings or/and streets as well as information what exacly happened there in the past,

• conclusion - in a form of evaluation - how the reader can use the fieldwork book

• bibliography, so a list of sources in alphabethical order (using Easybib: )

• appendix (not obligatory) - with sketches or/and photos which you have not included in the whole field trip book, but are necessary to show the importance of any historical figure, event, etc.

 

VI. Post field trip activities

 

• each group will be given two weeks time to finish the fieldwork book

• students will be given time to share general observations and reactions to field trip experiences

• teachers will develop a classroom museum that replicates and extends displays students observed on the field trip

 

VII. Field trip Evaluation

 

Questions to consider:

 

• What was of unique educational value in this field trip?

• Did the students/you meet the objectives/expectations?

• Was there adequate time?

• Was there adequate staff and adult supervision?

• What might be done differently to make this an even better experience in the future?

• What special points should be emphasized next time?

• What special problems should be addressed in the future?

• What would improve a visit to this site in the future?

 

VIII. Assessment. Students will be assessed against the following criteria, on the following subjects:

 

• Polish 'A'

 

A: Analyzing.

B: Organizing.

C: Producing text.

D: Using language.

 

• English 'A'

 

B: Organizing.

C: Producing text.

D: Using language.

 

• Polish 'B'

 

C: Communicating in response to spoken, written and visual text.

D: Using language in spoken and written form.

 

 

• English 'B'

 

A: Comprehending spoken and visual text.

B: Comprehending written and visual text

C: Communicating in response to spoken, written and visual text.

D: Using language in spoken and written form.

 

• History / Geography

 

A: Knowing and Understanding - content [joint each grade mark connected with the final product]

B: Investigating - group work, roles, duties [individual assessment based on teachers' observations during the trip]

C: Communicating - the way of students' communication connected with the roles in each group during field trip [individual assessment based on teachers observations during the trip]

D: Thinking critically - the order of fieldwork book, language and grammar, the way each photo and sketch is presented (number, short description what photo/sketch presents and the author, for instance: Photo no. 1. Old Market Square. Jerzy Janiec or Sketch no. 3. Gdańska Street. Anita Kotowska) [joint each grade mark connected with the final product]