Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.11

SS24.WH.11 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.WH.11a

  Describe how the Nazis built upon historical antisemitism to dehumanize Jewish people and frame them as the enemy of the German people.

• SS24.WH.11b

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

• SS24.WH.11c

  Explain the roles of different types of camps in the Holocaust, including slave labor, transit, concentration camps, and killing centers.

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What Students Need to Do

Students explain how the Nazis used older antisemitic ideas to justify laws and violence against Jewish people. They trace the shift from exclusion to mass murder between 1933 and 1945. They distinguish transit, slave labor, concentration, and killing camps.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students put boycotts, the Nuremberg Laws, ghettos, mass shootings, and killing centers in order and explain how persecution escalated. They explain that transit camps held deportees, slave labor camps exploited workers, concentration camps imprisoned people, and killing centers carried out mass murder. They recognize that some camps served more than one purpose.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think mass murder began suddenly in 1942, rather than after years of escalating persecution. They may mistake Nazi propaganda for fact or assume every camp was a killing center. Some overlook that the Nazis also targeted Roma people, people with disabilities, and others.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Put the Nuremberg Laws, mass shootings, and killing centers in order. Then explain how Nazi propaganda used older antisemitism and how a transit camp differed from a killing center.

1. 01

   Give pairs cards labeled 1933 boycotts, 1935 Nuremberg Laws, 1938 Kristallnacht, 1941 mass shootings, and 1942 killing centers to arrange and annotate.

2. 02

   Read a translated excerpt from the 1935 Reich Citizenship Law, then write how legal exclusion built on older antisemitic ideas.

3. 03

   Match four camp descriptions to transit, slave labor, concentration, and killing, then discuss why Auschwitz served more than one function.

4. 04

   Use a US Holocaust Memorial Museum map to locate Warsaw and Treblinka, then trace where deportees were sent in 1942.

• SS24.HOS.7

  Describe how Jewish life deteriorated under the Third Reich in Germany and its annexed territories from 1933 to 1938.*

• SS24.HOS.1

  Defend the definition of the Holocaust as the planned and systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborato...

• SS24.HOS.5

  Explain how the Nazi Party grew into a mass movement that gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadersh...