Global History Lessons: Unit Five:
China
From the ancent Chinese empires to Opium Wars. The rise and fall of Mao. This unit will also look at dynastic China in order to provide a context for understanding the changes brought by the Communist Revolution to present-day China. As a part of this unit, students will recieve two packets from the Choices program developed at Brown University. The first packet is the required text readings. The second packet is a workbook for students which will be checked periodically and turned in at the end of the unit.
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In class |
Work Due |
Assignments |
Day 1 |
Introduction, Geography activity |
None |
Geography Question, Reading 1, text p. 104-109 and complete Study Guide: Doc or PDF |
Day 2 |
Lecture on Ancient Chinese Philosophies and Ethical Codes | Geography Question, Study Guide p. 104-109 | Chinese Accordion books, Reading 2(200-207) in Doc or PDF, & 3(322-329) in Doc or PDF |
Day 3 |
Technological Advancements | Readings 2 & 3 Study Guides | Accordion Books, Reading 4(536-541) Doc or PDF |
Day 4 |
Work on Accordion Books |
Reading 4 Study Guides | Finish Accordion Books |
Day 5 |
Present Accordion Books, Begin studying modern era of China, focus on Primary Sources, The Opium Wars |
Accordion Books | Read text p. 805-809 and Study Guide Doc or PDF Reading and Study Guide : The Opium Wars |
Day 6 |
Read Letter of Advice from Lin Tse-Hsu to Queen Victoria, OPVL analysis | Study Guide: The Opium Wars | Complete OPVL of Letter, Read and OPVL The Treaty of Nanking |
Day 7 |
Placards Posted in Guangzhou | OPVL: Letter, and Treaty | Read China and the Boxer Rebellion and generate questions |
Day 8 |
Prisoner of the Boxer Rebellion reading and study guide | China and the Boxer Rebellion questions |
Emergence of China: Hundred Days' Reform and the Republican Revolution of 1911 questions |
Day 9 |
Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900, and various other texts | Emergence questions |
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Day 10 |
Read text 1059-1063 and complete Study Guide Doc or PDF, Begin research project | Text 882-886 Study Guide |
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Day 11 |
Continue research project | Text 972-975 Study Guide |
Work on research project |
Day 12 |
Continue research project | Evidence |
Work on research project |
Day 13 |
Continue research project | Analysis |
Work on research project |
Day 14 |
Research Project DUE, Begin watching To Live | Research Project |
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Day 15 |
Continue watching To Live |
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Day 16 |
Finish watching To Live |
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