Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.5.6
The Standard
Examine the choices and actions of individuals and groups defying Nazi policy at great personal risk.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify acts of resistance and rescue under Nazi rule. They use accounts and records to explain what people chose to do, whom they helped, and what they risked.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how the White Rose spread anti-Nazi leaflets and why its members faced arrest. They can use an account of the Danish rescue to show how people helped Jewish neighbors reach Sweden.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think resistance only meant armed fighting, missing acts such as hiding people or spreading leaflets. They may assume everyone had the same choices, overlooking the different dangers faced by persecuted people and bystanders.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short account of the White Rose distributing leaflets and facing arrest. Ask them to name the group's choice, its purpose, and its risk, using one detail from the account.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a map of Denmark and Sweden and a Danish rescue account; have them mark an escape route and list the risks.
Read an excerpt from a White Rose leaflet; ask students to write what its writers wanted readers to do and why that was dangerous.
Make four case cards about the White Rose, Danish rescuers, Schindler, and Warsaw Ghetto fighters; have teams match each action to its risk.
Open a US Holocaust Memorial Museum page about a rescuer; have students write a 40-word exhibit label naming the action and risk.
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