Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.15b
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.15
- Differentiate among the types of camps utilized by the Nazis, including their origins, purposes, and the conditions associated with them.*
Describe daily life in the camps, including means of resistance.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · The Final Solution
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe daily life in the camps, including hunger, forced labor, disease, and violence. They explain how prisoners resisted, using examples from survivor accounts.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student describes conditions in a documented camp account and points to details that support the description. They identify quiet acts and organized resistance, and explain the risks prisoners faced.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every camp had the same conditions or that prisoners could refuse forced labor. They may think resistance only meant armed revolt, overlooking secret records and mutual aid.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short survivor testimony excerpt that includes resistance. Ask them to name two conditions and one act of resistance, with a phrase from the excerpt supporting each.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Hand out printed USHMM testimony excerpts; pairs mark descriptions of food, labor, and violence in one color and resistance in another.
Ask: How did access to food, tools, or other people affect a prisoner's options for resistance? Use two details from testimony.
Give pairs four claims about camp life and resistance to match with four testimony excerpts; require a quoted detail for each match.
Open a USHMM online exhibit about camp life; students draft a museum label describing one documented condition and one act of resistance.
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Related Standards
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Describe Jewish life in the ghettos, including means of resistance.
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- SS24.HOS.15c
Locate major camps and explain their significance.*
- SS24.HOS.15
Differentiate among the types of camps utilized by the Nazis, including their origins, purposes, and the conditions associated with them.*
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