Cultural Revolution (China) Lesson
Central Historical Question: Why did Chinese youth get swept up in the Cultural Revolution?
California
State
Standard
10.9.4 Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Zedong, and the
subsequent political and economic upheavals in China (e.g. the Great
Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square
uprising).
Com m on Core State Standard(s):
Reading
W riting
1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis 2. Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of
of primary and secondary sources, attending to
historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical
such features as the date and origin of the
processes.
information.
a. Introduce a topic and organize ideas, concepts, and
2. Determ ine the central ideas or inform ation of a
information to make important connections and distinctions;
prim ary or secondary source; provide an accurate
include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures,
sum m ary of how key events or ideas develop over
tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding
the course of the text.
comprehension.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development,
used in a text, including vocabulary describing political,
organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and
social, or economic aspects of history/social studies.
audience.
6. Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how
8. Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and
they treat the same or similar topics, including which details
digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the
they include and emphasize in their respective accounts.
usefulness of each source in answering the research question;
7. Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts,
integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of
research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text.
ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for
8. Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in
citation.
a text support the author’s claims.
9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis,
10. By the end of grade 10, read and comprehend
reflection, and research.
history/social studies texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and
band independently and proficiently.
revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for
a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.