Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.6.6.C
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.
Examine the effects of the Shoah through eyewitness accounts from victims, survivors, liberators, and perpetrators.
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 read a victim’s diary, a survivor interview, a liberator report, and a perpetrator statement. They use details from the accounts to explain loss, trauma, and displacement during and after the Shoah.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can cite details from the accounts to explain specific effects on people and communities. They can explain what each witness knew firsthand and check a perpetrator’s claims against other evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think liberation meant survivors could safely return home. Others assume perpetrator accounts are neutral, or think all victims died rather than recognizing that survivors were also victims.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Using today’s four excerpts, name one effect of the Shoah, cite two accounts that show it, and explain one limit of either account.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed excerpts from four witnesses and have them highlight details about loss, displacement, or life after liberation.
Ask students to write: How does a survivor’s account of liberation differ from a liberator’s, and what might explain the difference?
Hand out eight brief quotations for students to sort by speaker, then label the effect each quotation describes.
Read a selected Holocaust museum survivor transcript and draft a 40-word exhibit label about life after liberation.
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