Alabama Social Studies SS24.7.8c
The Standard
- SS24.7.8
- Explain the geographic and cultural development of ancient Israel.
Outline the multiple exiles of the Jewish people and their return to Israel, from the establishment of the nation through the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD/CE.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace what happened to the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah under Assyria and Babylon. They locate the deportations, the return allowed by Persia, and Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem on a timeline and map.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that Assyria deported people from northern Israel, while Babylon exiled people from Judah. They place the Persian return before Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE and know that not every Jewish person left or returned.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat Israel and Judah as one kingdom throughout or mix up the Assyrian and Babylonian deportations. Some assume every Jewish person returned under Persia, or that Rome expelled every Jew in 70 CE.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, have students order Assyria’s deportations, Babylon’s exile, the Persian return, and Rome’s destruction of Jerusalem. Ask them to name who was deported and who returned.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dated event cards and a blank map; have them order the cards and draw the deportation and return routes.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining how the Persian return differed from what happened in Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Play timeline swap: partners arrange four event cards, secretly switch two, and challenge each other to find and fix the error.
On a current map, locate Jerusalem, Rome, and New York, then discuss how communities can keep ties to a homeland.
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Related Standards
- SS24.7.8
Explain the geographic and cultural development of ancient Israel.
- SS24.7.8b
Describe the establishment of a unified Israel under Kings Saul, David, and Solomon.
- SS24.HOS.7
Describe how Jewish life deteriorated under the Third Reich in Germany and its annexed territories from 1933 to 1938.*
- SS24.7.8a
Identify the central tenets of Judaism, and compare Judaism to the polytheistic religions of other Mediterranean ancient civilizations.
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