3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:China
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:0
  • Grade(s):9, 10, 11, 12
Key Learning: China is an emerging superpower.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How has China developed into a major economic and poltical player on the world stage?
   
Concept: Philosophies
Concept: Isolation and Dynasties
Concept: Opening of China
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did the philosophies of Ancient China influence the course of China\'s future? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did the geography of China contribute to it isolation (A)
In what ways did China\'s isolation aid the continuity of goverment and culture under dynastic rule? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did external factors finally force China to change? (A)
Concept: Economic Communism vs. Political Communism
Concept: Arts
Concept: The Rise of China
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How has China\'s philosophies of economic communism diverged from its philosophies of political communism? (A)
What is communism? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How have the culture changes of China been reflected in its fine art? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What is China\'s emerging economic role in the world? (A)
What is the developing political role of China in the world today? (A)
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Vocabulary Report

  • Daoism/Taoism -
  • Propoganda -
  • Spheres of Influence -
  • Communism -
  • Tibet -
  • Zhong-guo -
  • Forbidden City -
  • Mao Zedong -
  • Confucianism -
  • Opium Wars -
  • Ming Dynasty -
  • Hong Kong -
  • Legalism -
  • Boxer Rebellion -
  • Deng Xiaoping -
  • One Child Policy -
  • Silk Road -
  • Domino Theory -
  • Dynastic Cycle -
  • Taiwan -
  • Revolution of 1911 -
  • Sun Yatsen -
  • Tiananmen Square -
  • Mandate of Heaven -
  • Chiang Kai-shek -
  • Cultural Revolution -
  • Filial Piety -
  • Mongols/Khans -
  • Great Leap Forward -
  • Manchuria -
  • Rape of Nanjing -