World History · Week 33 · The Cold War and the Contemporary World
Voices Behind the Iron Curtain
Students follow uprisings in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to the fall of the Soviet Union and reflect on how hope sustains people through long struggles.
- Students will
- Students follow uprisings in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to the fall of the Soviet Union and explain how citizens worked for freedom and the common good.
- SEL skill
- Explain how hope sustains effort over a long struggle
- What it looks like
- Students build self-motivation by examining how hope sustains people through long struggles.
- Content focus
- Voices behind the Iron Curtain
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
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Standards
- 10.9.5: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.9, item 5)
- 10.9.7: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 10: World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World (standard 10.9, item 7)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HREP4 Construct and test hypotheses using multiple primary and secondary sources and present findings orally and in writing. (Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.14.9-12 Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging ways people change societies, promote the common good, and protect rights.
- Literacy in history: RH.9-10.9 Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
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More self-management activities for World History
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- 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.
- Resistance and Resilience Self-managementStudents learn how colonized peoples resisted through armed revolt, diplomacy, and keeping language and faith alive and identify sources of their own resilience.
- 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.
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