Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.11b
The Standard
- SS24.WH.11
- Explain the Holocaust as the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and mass murder of Europe’s Jews and other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.
Trace how the Nazis’ plan for the European Jews evolved from 1933 to the Final Solution.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students put Nazi actions against European Jews in order, from the first discriminatory laws through wartime mass murder. They explain how persecution changed as the war spread.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use dates to show the shift from lost rights and forced emigration to ghettos, mass shootings, and killing centers. They can explain that the Nazis did not begin with a fixed plan for death camps in 1933.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think death camps existed from the start of Nazi rule. Others think the 1942 Wannsee meeting began the mass murder, rather than coordinating a genocide already underway.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Put the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, 1940 ghettos, 1941 mass shootings, and 1942 deportations to killing centers in order. Explain how Nazi policy changed.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have pairs arrange printed cards for the 1933 boycott, 1935 Nuremberg Laws, 1938 Kristallnacht, 1940 ghettos, 1941 mass shootings, and 1942 deportations.
Ask: How did the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union change Nazi actions against Jews? Use two dated events as evidence.
Play timeline repair: give groups a six-event sequence with two cards swapped, then have them fix it and cite dates.
Use the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's online timeline to find a dated artifact, then write its two-sentence museum label.
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