Message from michellejones

A few weeks ago, I was in a teacher's store and found a three-video series on Modern China. The first video covers China during its Revolution. For the second video, it discusses and highlights the Mao years. Finally, life in China under the "red flag" is the topic of the third video.

This video set would be wonderful for an IB or AP World Cultures/World History class. The videos go into great detail regarding each of the three main themes.

If you were to show each video completely, it would take you six hours. So, I do not recommend you do that. However, as you cover the California state social science standards, as well as the IB standards, you could use video clips from each of the videos to highlight or illustrate those standards specific to China during the modern era.

My favorite of the three videos was "Born Under the Red Flag", the third video. I felt this video did a great job at exemplifying life after the Revolution. How things changed for the people, etc.