Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.7.1
The Standard
Explain the Shoah (Holocaust) as the planned and systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Nazi Germany used laws, records, police, and transport to persecute and murder European Jews. They describe how collaborators helped carry out the genocide across occupied Europe.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can trace the escalation from anti-Jewish laws to deportations, mass shootings, and killing centers. They can use a dated source to explain the role of government offices or collaborators.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think all the murders took place in camps, overlooking mass shootings. They may think Hitler acted alone, ignoring government offices and local collaborators. They may also treat every group persecuted by the Nazis as having faced the same policies.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Using the law and deportation cards from class, name two state actions and explain how they helped carry out the persecution and murder of European Jews.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dated cards for the Nuremberg Laws, a 1941 mass shooting, and a 1942 deportation; have them order the cards and mark state actions.
Ask students to write: What do an anti-Jewish law and a deportation order show about the role of officials?
Make matching cards pairing offices and collaborators with actions such as registration, deportation, or guarding a killing site.
Read a USHMM survivor testimony excerpt and find the speaker's hometown on a map to connect government actions with one person's life.
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