Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.11c
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.
Explain the roles of different types of camps in the Holocaust, including slave labor, transit, concentration camps, and killing centers.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify what happened at transit camps, concentration camps, slave labor camps, and killing centers. They explain how people were held, moved, forced to work, or murdered. They recognize that one site could have more than one role.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short site description, a student identifies its role and points to a detail that supports the answer. They can explain why not every concentration camp was a killing center and why some sites need more than one label.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every concentration camp was built for mass murder. They may mistake transit camps for final destinations or assume forced labor happened only in separate labor camps.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Label these sites by role: Westerbork held people before deportation; Dachau detained prisoners; Mittelbau-Dora used forced labor; Treblinka was built for mass murder. Which site could fit more than one role, and why?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print short site descriptions of Westerbork, Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, and Treblinka; pairs label each site's roles and underline the evidence.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining why Dachau and Treblinka should not be described as the same kind of site.
Have students sort printed descriptions of Drancy, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Sobibor by role, then cite one clue for each choice.
Compare a current map of Europe with a Holocaust deportation map; students trace the rail route from Westerbork to Sobibor.
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