World History · Week 16 · Imperialism and Independence
Resistance and Resilience
Students learn how colonized peoples resisted through armed revolt, diplomacy, and keeping language and faith alive and identify sources of their own resilience.
- Students will
- Students describe varied responses to colonial rule, including armed resistance, diplomacy, and cultural preservation, and explain their significance.
- SEL skill
- Name a source of your own resilience and a strategy for coping with stress
- What it looks like
- Students identify sources of their own resilience and strategies for coping with stress.
- Content focus
- Resistance and resilience under colonial rule
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management means managing your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors so you can reach your goals. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 10.4.3: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.4, item 3)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HI4 Understand the meaning and impact of historical events and recognize that events could have taken other directions. (Historical Interpretation)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.3.9-12 Use questions about individuals and groups to assess how the significance of their actions changes over time and is shaped by context.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas of a primary or secondary source and summarize them accurately.
Fits these textbook chapters
- Modern World History, The Age of Imperialism
- Modern World History, Modernization in Japan
- History Alive! World Connections, Lesson 17: Imperialism Throughout the World
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More self-management activities for World History
- When Revolutions Turn Self-managementStudents follow France from constitutional monarchy through the Terror to Napoleon and practice noticing how fear and anger escalate in a group and how to steady themselves.
- Machines That Changed Everything Self-managementStudents examine how steam power and new inventions remade daily life at different speeds and practice strategies for coping when change feels too fast.
- Sun Yat-sen and a New China Self-managementStudents examine how Sun Yat-sen built a movement to end imperial rule in China through years of setbacks and set a goal that keeps them going after a failure.
- How Nations Talked Themselves Into War Self-managementStudents analyze how alliances, nationalism, and propaganda mobilized whole populations for total war and practice pausing when group excitement pushes them toward conflict.
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