Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.6.6.A
The Standard
- MWH.C.6
- Evaluate the global transformation created by the World Wars.
- MWH.C.6.6
- Examine the background, causes, series of events, and effects of the Shoah (Holocaust), the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
Trace the historical roots of antisemitism in Europe, including prejudice and the emergence of the 19th-century racial theories, and analyze how these ideas contributed to Nazi ideology.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · MWH.C.6.6
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how older religious prejudice against Jews changed as nineteenth-century writers made false claims about race. They explain how Nazis used those claims to define Jewish identity by ancestry and justify persecution.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can distinguish a medieval restriction tied to religion from a Nazi rule based on ancestry. They can explain why conversion to Christianity did not protect someone classified as Jewish under Nazi law.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think antisemitism began with Hitler or that Nazi racial claims were valid science. Some assume conversion to Christianity removed a person from Nazi persecution.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: How did Nazi rules about Jewish ancestry differ from older religious prejudice? Give one example of how that difference affected people's lives.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have pairs arrange printed cards showing a medieval religious restriction, a nineteenth-century racial claim, and a Nazi ancestry rule on a timeline.
Ask students to write: Why would conversion not protect someone classified as Jewish under Nazi law?
Run a card match: students pair examples with religious prejudice, false racial theory, or Nazi policy, then explain one match.
Display a Holocaust museum page about the Nuremberg Laws; students find one way ancestry rules affected a person's citizenship.
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- TOT.C.4.3
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- TOT.C.5.1
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- MWH.C.6.6
Examine the background, causes, series of events, and effects of the Shoah (Holocaust), the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European ...
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