Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.2

SS24.HOS.2 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.HOS.2a

  Identify core practices and tenets within historical and modern Judaism and analyze the historical and modern antisemitic beliefs about Jewish life and religion...

• 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.2c

  Trace the intensification of antisemitism in the United States during the early twentieth century.

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What Students Need to Do

Students describe Jewish beliefs and practices, such as Torah study and Shabbat, while noting that observance varies. They trace false claims about Jews from ancient and medieval prejudice into Nazi propaganda. They explain how those claims also spread in the United States during the early twentieth century.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can tell the difference between a Jewish practice and a false claim about Jews. They can explain how Nazi leaders reused older religious prejudice and racial conspiracy theories. They can cite Ford's newspaper and 1920s college quotas as U.S. examples.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think all Jews keep kosher or observe Shabbat the same way. They may think Nazi leaders invented antisemitism or that the United States was free of it. Some mistake conspiracy claims for facts about Judaism.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Name one Jewish practice. Then explain how one older false claim about Jews appeared in Nazi propaganda or in the United States during the 1920s.

1. 01

   Give pairs dated cards about medieval accusations, Ford's newspaper, and Nazi propaganda; have them order the cards and mark repeated false claims.

2. 02

   Read two Jewish first-person accounts of Shabbat; ask students to write how the practices differ and why one account cannot represent everyone.

3. 03

   Teams place cards about medieval prejudice, 1920s college quotas, and Nazi laws on a timeline, then explain one connection.

4. 04

   Show a teacher-written mock social media post blaming a whole community for rising prices; compare its scapegoating with Ford's newspaper.

• SS24.HOS.7c

  Assess the main purposes of the Nazi antisemitic laws and policies and explain how they evolved over time.*