Conceptual Objectives

• Student understands and individually defines concepts such as: political emigration, political repression, political asylum, and democracy.
• Student understands the causes of national liberation movements and the genesis of the phenomenon of political exile in Europe after the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
• Student understands the importance of journalistic, literary, and artistic activities of emigrants for the situation of their country at international level as well as for building national awareness.
• Student is able to make analogies between the objectives of the struggle of the Poles and other European revolutions in the nineteenth century.

Methodological Objectives and Skills

• Student develops the ability to study basic historical facts using a map (and its legend).
• By analysing iconography, student can draw conclusions on the presented facts, and in addition to general knowledge, draw conclusions about the broader historical phenomena and processes.
• Student reads with understanding a scientific text and gathers the knowledge appropriate to their level of education.
• Student interprets works of art regarding their political and propaganda messages.
• Student uses the acquired knowledge of the history of the nineteenth century to make judgments and opinions regarding similar social and political phenomena in the surrounding reality.

Suggestion of Activities

Classes built on the basis of the material should be designed to help students understand the analogy between the phenomenon of political emigration of the Poles (and others) in the nineteenth century and contemporary problems of people persecuted in their countries for political views. It seems equally important to provide students with the tasks to make them aware that in the nineteenth century and today, there have been trends in literature, poetry, and music whose authors have been politically involved. These authors reveal and propagate their views through art. Exemplary tasks (for individual and group activities):

1. Consider the values, in the context of the Polish fight for independence, that are included in the works by Frederick Chopin. Point out contemporary performers of popular music that are also politically involved. What are they fighting for? In what kind of problems (politics, ecology, equality) are they usually involved?
2. In today's world, we can identify many examples of countries that do not respect the rights of free speech for their citizens. There are also countries that prohibit people living within their boundaries to separate and create their own country. The citizens of these countries are often forced to emigrate and keep fighting for their ideas away from their homeland.
   • Create a brief report about a country that represses political opposition.
   • Study the directions of political emigration of persecuted political activists in these countries.
   • Consider the elements that resemble this emigration environment (its aims, its methods of operation) to Polish emigrants in the nineteenth century.

Suggestion of Evaluation

Both the degree of mastery of the skills listed in the conceptual and methodological objectives as well as the ability to combine the acquired knowledge of the history of emigrants in the nineteenth century with similar phenomena in the modern world should be evaluated.