This resource guide was developed by the Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development Team in coordination with the East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University to support teaching about modern Chinese history in the classroom. Sources for material are focused on the Key Issues for Asian Studies series by the Association for Asian Studies by David Kenley, Modern Chinese History. Materials are designed for teachers to use in the classroom with minimal modification in the Take & Go Series: Modern Chinese History.
STANDARDS
- Contemporary World Issues
- Contemporary World Issues: Global Economy 19 - The global economy creates advantages and disadvantages for different segments of the world’s population.
- Contemporary World Issues: Global Economy 20 - Trade agreements, multinational organization, embargoes and protectionism impact markets.
- Modern World History
- Modern World History: Imperialism 9 - Imperial expansion had political, economic and social roots.
- Modern World History: Imperialism 11 - The consequences of imperialism were viewed differently by the colonizers and the colonized.
- Social Studies
- Social Studies 6th grade: History Early Civilizations 2 - Early Civilizations had unique governments, economic systems, social structures, religions, technologies and agricultural practices and products. The cultural practices and products of these early civilizations can be used to help understand the Eastern Hemisphere today.
- Social Studies 6th grade: Geography Human Systems 7 - Political, environmental, social and economic factors cause people, products and ideas to move from place to place in the Eastern Hemisphere in the past and today.
- CCSS
- ELA-LITERACY. RH 9-10.2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
- ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.3. Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
- ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.3. Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
- ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.3
- Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.
- ELA-LITERACY. RI 9-12.2. Analyze informational text development: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details.
- ELA-LITERACY.: RI 9-12.2. Analyze informational text development: Provide an objective summary of the text that includes the development of the central idea and how details impact this idea.
- NCSS: The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards: Guidance for Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, and History (Silver Spring, MD: NCSS, 2013).
- D2.His.1.9-12. Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts
- D2.His.2.6-8. Classify series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity.
- D2.Geo.5.6-8. Analyze the combinations of cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from other places.
This project was funded in part by the Freeman Foundation through the University of Pittsburgh national coordinating site for the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA) Asian Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, and the U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant to the East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University. The content of this resource guide does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
This guide is available online for classroom use worldwide and can be accessed at EASC's Resource page.
Source: Kenley, D. L. (2020). Modern Chinese History (2nd ed., Ser. Key Issues in Asian Studies). Association for Asian Studies.