World History · Week 27 · Totalitarianism and World War II
Empires on the March
Students map the drives for empire by Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s, including atrocities against civilians in Nanjing, and honor the dignity of those who suffered.
- Students will
- Students map the drives for empire by Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s, including atrocities against civilians in Nanjing, and explain how place and circumstance shaped each.
- SEL skill
- Honor the dignity of people who suffered while comparing events
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy and perspective by honoring the dignity of people who suffered.
- Content focus
- Empires on the march and Nanjing
- Format
- Structured discussion
Social awareness
Social awareness is understanding and empathizing with the views of others, especially people whose lives are unlike yours. More social awareness activities
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Standards
- 10.8.1: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.8, item 1)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST3 Use maps and documents to interpret human movement, settlement, frictions between groups, and the spread of ideas and goods. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.1.9-12 Evaluate how historical events were shaped by the unique circumstances of time and place and by broader historical contexts.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.7 Integrate quantitative or technical analysis, such as charts and maps, with information in a text.
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More social awareness activities for World History
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- Two Sides of the Colonial Story Social awarenessStudents compare accounts of imperialism written by colonizers and by colonized people and practice seeing an event through the eyes of someone with less power.
- Letters From the Trenches Social awarenessStudents read letters from soldiers on many sides, including colonial troops, and practice attuning to the feelings beneath another person's words.
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