Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.2a
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.2
- Explain the origins and history of antisemitism.*
Identify core practices and tenets within historical and modern Judaism and analyze the historical and modern antisemitic beliefs about Jewish life and religion.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Antisemitism and Pre-War Jewish Life
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe Jewish beliefs and practices, such as belief in one God, Shabbat, and Torah study. They compare Jewish life in different times and places. They use sources to explain why past and present claims about Jewish people are antisemitic and false.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a prewar family account and a current community calendar to identify shared traditions without assuming everyone observes them the same way. They can explain why blaming Jews for the plague and claiming Jews control governments are unsupported, antisemitic claims.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume all Jewish people observe holidays and food rules in the same way. Some may mistake conspiracy claims for historical facts or think antisemitism began with the Holocaust.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short excerpt from a prewar Jewish family account and a museum note about a plague-era accusation. Ask them to name one practice in the account and explain why the accusation is antisemitic.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pairs sort printed cards from a prewar Jewish diary, a current synagogue calendar, and museum explanations of antisemitic myths, then mark evidence.
Ask: How do a 1930s family account and a current synagogue calendar show shared traditions and different ways of observing them?
Run a source-check relay: teams label dated claims as documented practice, belief, or antisemitic myth, then cite evidence for each label.
Compare a public synagogue holiday calendar with a museum page on current antisemitism, then list one lived practice and one myth the museum refutes.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HOS.2
Explain the origins and history of antisemitism.*
- SS24.HOS.7c
Assess the main purposes of the Nazi antisemitic laws and policies and explain how they evolved over time.*
- SS24.HOS.2b
Analyze how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism to cast the Jewish people as a common enemy.*
- 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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