Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.14

SS24.HOS.14 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.HOS.14a

  Explain the purpose and scope of the Wannsee Conference in 1942.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify mass shootings, deportations, and killing centers as parts of the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews. They explain how Nazi antisemitic beliefs drove it. They describe the January 1942 Wannsee meeting as a step in coordinating an ongoing genocide across Europe.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a short Wannsee Protocol excerpt, a student explains that words such as “evacuation” hid plans for deportation and murder. They explain that the meeting did not start the killings and that Nazi plans reached beyond Germany.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think the Wannsee meeting started the killings, though mass shootings had begun in 1941. They may mistake “evacuation” for a move to safety or think the plans concerned only Jews in Germany.

04

How to Assess It

On an exit ticket, ask: “What did officials coordinate at Wannsee, whom did their plans cover, and why did they target them?”

1. 01

   Give groups date cards for 1941 mass shootings, the January 1942 meeting, and later deportations; have them build an annotated timeline.

2. 02

   Read a translated Wannsee Protocol excerpt and ask, “What does the word ‘evacuation’ hide in this document?”

3. 03

   Run a four-card claim sort: students label each claim about Wannsee accurate or inaccurate, then correct errors using the timeline.

4. 04

   Use current and 1942 maps of Europe to trace how Nazi deportation plans reached beyond Germany.

• SS24.WH.11b

  Trace how the Nazis’ plan for the European Jews evolved from 1933 to the Final Solution.

• SS24.HOS.6b

  Analyze the Nazis’ pursuit of racial purity, including sterilization and other eugenics practices.

• SS24.HOS.2b

  Analyze how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism to cast the Jewish people as a common enemy.*

• SS24.HOS.10

  Summarize the German T4 (“euthanasia”) Program, including its origins and purposes, and explain how it contributed to the Final Solution.*