Unit 3 Age of Accelerated Connections, 500 - 1500
Chapter 9 "China & The World, East Asian Connections"
Week at a Glance:MON - Quiz CH 8, Intro to China
TUE - China & Eastern Neighbors
W/TH - China & Eastern Neighbors, Document Study, Review CH 8 & 9
FRI - TEST CH 8 & 9
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Quote of the Day: "He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened." - Tao Te Ching
Learning Targets:
• Explain the development of China as “superpower” among the third-wave civilizations.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Examine modern assumptions about China and determine the root of that perception.
Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did Tang and Song dynasty China resemble the classical Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?
2. Why are the centuries of the Tang and Song dynasties in China sometimes referred to as a “golden age”?
3. In what ways did women’s lives change during the Tang and Song dynasties?
Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz Chapter 9. (Students may use their notes from Chapter 9)
2. DO NOW after quiz - In what ways did Tang and Song dynasty China resemble the classical Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: China Part I
4. Video from Engineering an Empire: China - The building of the Grand Canal (9 minutes) The video will focus on the unification of China through a giant series of canals that united the northern and southern regions. It is over 1,000 miles in length and it created a booming economic explosion in China.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Quote of the Day: "Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay it's price." - Sun Tzu
Learning Targets:
• Explain the development of China as “superpower” among the third-wave civilizations.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Examine modern assumptions about China and determine the root of that perception.
Essential Questions:
1. What assumptions underlay the tribute system?
2. How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?
4. How did the Chinese and their nomadic neighbors to the north view each other?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW Questions: How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?
2. Chinese Dynasties (Vogue, by Madonna), Youtube's History Teachers. (5 min)
3. Notes, Discussion, Video - China & East Asian Neighbors, Part II
Video, "Ancient China" - Discovery Science - Chinese technology.
Compass discovery in China and then sold through trade networks, ending up in Europe around 1200.
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Wednesday, October 26 and Thursday October 27, 2011
Quote of the Day: "When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear." - Zen Proverb
Learning Targets:
Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did Tang and Song dynasty China resemble the classical Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?
2. Why are the centuries of the Tang and Song dynasties in China sometimes referred to as a “golden age”?
3. In what ways did women’s lives change during the Tang and Song dynasties?
Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz Chapter 9. (Students may use their notes from Chapter 9)
2. DO NOW after quiz - In what ways did Tang and Song dynasty China resemble the classical Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: China Part I
4. Video from Engineering an Empire: China - The building of the Grand Canal (9 minutes) The video will focus on the unification of China through a giant series of canals that united the northern and southern regions. It is over 1,000 miles in length and it created a booming economic explosion in China.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Quote of the Day: "Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay it's price." - Sun Tzu
Learning Targets:
• Explain the development of China as “superpower” among the third-wave civilizations.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Examine modern assumptions about China and determine the root of that perception.
Essential Questions:
1. What assumptions underlay the tribute system?
2. How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?
4. How did the Chinese and their nomadic neighbors to the north view each other?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW Questions: How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?
2. Chinese Dynasties (Vogue, by Madonna), Youtube's History Teachers. (5 min)
3. Notes, Discussion, Video - China & East Asian Neighbors, Part II
Video, "Ancient China" - Discovery Science - Chinese technology.
Compass discovery in China and then sold through trade networks, ending up in Europe around 1200.
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Wednesday, October 26 and Thursday October 27, 2011
Quote of the Day: "When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear." - Zen Proverb
Learning Targets:
• Explain the development of China as “superpower” among the third-wave civilizations.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Examine modern assumptions about China and determine the root of that perception.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
1. How did China influence the world beyond East Asia?
2. How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world?
3. In what different ways did Korea, Vietnam, and Japan experience and respond to Chinese influence?
3. In what different ways did Korea, Vietnam, and Japan experience and respond to Chinese influence?
4. In what different ways did Japanese and Korean women experience the pressures of Confucian orthodoxy?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW Questions: Based on this chapter, how would you respond to the idea that
2. Students will read in groups the documents from Chapter 9:
Document 9.1 - Japanese Political Ideas - SHOTOKU, The Seventeen Article Constitution, 604
Document 9.5 - The Way of the Warrior
Class will also discuss:
Visual Sources - Considering the Evidence: The Leisure Life of China’s Elites
3. With the time remaining, we will review Chapters 8 & 9 for the test on Friday.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Quote of the Day: "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." - Buddha
Friday, October 28, 2011
Quote of the Day: "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." - Buddha
Agenda:
1. TEST Chapter 9
2. Student should begin reading Strayer Chapter 10. Quiz on Monday.
1. TEST Chapter 9
2. Student should begin reading Strayer Chapter 10. Quiz on Monday.