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It was great to work on this project. I would usually not have this much time during the regular school year to learn or research this much. I look foward to finishing this mini-curriculum unit. 
Standard:
10.9: Students analyze the international developments in the post-World World War II
10.9.4: Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China (e.g., the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square uprising).
Materials: LCD projector, propaganda images, Mao Buttons, handout copies, DBQ,
Day 1:
Teacher generated PPT with 3-4 min textbook audio clip on the Cultural Revolution; students take Cornell style notes in notebooks
Propaganda/Mao Button analysis- copies of 5-6 images around the room, students walk around and answer questions. (Can also put at the beginning of Day 3).
Suggested websites: http://www.morningsun.org/images/index.html#
Day 2:
Working in groups of 4-5 students, students will each be given five Handouts with excerpts and individually answer the questions about their handout. (Topics include: Origins of Cultural Revolution, Cult of Mao, Destruction of four olds, Attack on Arts, Rustication of Urban Youth).
Handouts available at: https://www.aasianst.org/EAA/10-3-supplemental.htm
As a group, students will create a poster with information from each handout. (Students may finish their individual questions for homework)
Day 3:
Video clip: To Live, teacher guide at: http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/downloads/To_Live.pdf
Teacher created DBQ with selected Mao Quotations specifically about the Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square.
Suggested Sources: Reader,
Little Red Book: http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Mao/Chairman-Mao-quotes.html
Extensions:
• Web quest
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/vsshistory/Sem2/2China/Studyroom/6cultrev/webcultural.htm
• Research Project with suggested sites and questions; great for economics also
http://www.fpri.org/education/china/coleman.prc.doc
• Mock Trial
http://www.lfslessonsasia.com/exredguardlesson.html