Alabama Social Studies SS24.HOS.2b
The Standard
- SS24.HOS.2
- Explain the origins and history of antisemitism.*
Analyze how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism to cast the Jewish people as a common enemy.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Antisemitism and Pre-War Jewish Life
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare older anti-Jewish stereotypes with Nazi propaganda. They explain how the regime reused those false claims to blame Jews for Germany’s problems and push people to exclude them.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student connects an older stereotype about Jews and money to the 1933 boycott of Jewish shops. They explain what the Nazis wanted Germans to believe and do, without treating the stereotype as fact.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think the Nazis invented antisemitism. Others think Nazi propaganda described Jewish people accurately. Some assume conversion to Christianity protected people whom the Nazis classified as Jewish.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: In two sentences, connect an older stereotype about Jews and money to the 1933 boycott of Jewish shops. What did the Nazis want Germans to believe and do?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a medieval anti-Jewish moneylending accusation and a 1933 boycott photograph; have them mark the false claim and the Nazi call to action.
Ask: How could an old false claim about Jews and money make the 1933 boycott seem reasonable to some Germans?
Give groups cards labeled older money stereotype, 1933 boycott sign, and shop boycott; have them order the cards and explain each link.
Show a mock social media post blaming one group for rising grocery prices; ask students what evidence they would check before sharing it.
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