World History · Week 15 · Imperialism and Independence
Two Sides of the Colonial Story
Students compare accounts of imperialism written by colonizers and by colonized people and practice seeing an event through the eyes of someone with less power.
- Students will
- Students explain imperialism from the perspectives of colonizers and colonized peoples and analyze how a writer's position shaped the account.
- SEL skill
- Compare how one event looks from the view of the powerful and the less powerful
- What it looks like
- Students practice empathy by describing how an event looks from the position of someone with less power.
- Content focus
- Colonizer and colonized perspectives
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness is understanding and empathizing with the views of others, especially people whose lives are unlike yours. More social awareness 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: HREP2 Identify bias and prejudice in historical interpretations. (Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.His.6.9-12 Analyze how the perspectives of those who wrote history shaped the histories they produced.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors on the same or related topics.
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 social awareness activities for World History
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- From Farm to Factory Town Social awarenessStudents study the move from villages to crowded industrial cities and consider what helps newcomers feel they belong in a new place.
- 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.
- Remembering the Armenian Genocide Social awarenessStudents learn about the Ottoman government's genocide against Armenian citizens through survivor testimony and practice bearing witness with respect for the people who suffered.
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