Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.13b

Social StudiesGrades 9–12The War in Europe

The Standard

Describe Jewish life in the ghettos, including means of resistance.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · The War in Europe

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students describe how Nazi restrictions shaped daily life for Jews in ghettos, including crowding, hunger, and forced labor. They explain ways residents resisted, from secret schools and preserving records to armed revolt.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student uses a diary detail to explain a hardship such as hunger or crowding. They explain what secret schools or the Oneg Shabbat archive resisted and distinguish those efforts from armed revolt.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think resistance meant only fighting with weapons. They may assume Jews could leave ghettos freely or that everyone had the same chance to resist.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Name one daily hardship in a Nazi-imposed ghetto and one act of resistance. Explain what that act resisted.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a Warsaw Ghetto map and a Mary Berg diary excerpt; have them outline the boundary and underline details about daily life.
Ask students to write: How did secret schools or the Oneg Shabbat archive resist Nazi policies? Use one source detail.
Give groups cards naming food smuggling, secret lessons, keeping diaries, and armed revolt; have them sort the cards by purpose and explain overlaps.
Show the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's page on the Oneg Shabbat archive; have students write a museum label explaining why its records matter today.

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