Catch-22 Lesson Plan

If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:

1. 1

   Students will learn the history of important fronts in World War II.

2. 2

   Students will explore how incompetent bureaucracy and higher-ups lead to suffering for those below them.

3. 3

   Students will examine how the drive toward money and profits can easily become a corrupting force.

4. 4

   Students will reflect on the complex tensions between morality and self-preservation in times of war.