Teacher Guide This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble. Remember, you can always send feedback to the Bing in the Classroom team at BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.com. You can learn more about the program at bing.com/classroom and follow the daily lessons on our Partners In Learning site. Want to extend today’s lesson? Consider using Skype in the Classroom to arrange for your class to chat with another class in today’s location. And if you are using Windows 8, you can also use the Bing apps to learn more about this location and topic; the Travel and News apps in particular make great teaching tools. Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation. This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: English Language Arts CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.3 Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. © David Santiago Garcia/Aurora Photo Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. If the notoriously manic traffic on the streets of Hanoi excites you, imagine those same streets on National Day in Vietnam. Today’s celebration commemorates the day in 1945 when Vietnam declared independence from France. Parades and public festivals will take over the streets of Hanoi and across Vietnam fireworks will light the sky. Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. 1 Web Search Define suzerainty 2 Map Search Use Bing Maps to locate China, France and Vietnam. What is the geographical proximity of these locations? 3 Identify 2 reasons the suzerainty of China over Vietnam was coming to an end in the late 19th century? 4 What advantage in the 18th and 19th centuries was there to France in having Vietnam as a colony of France? 5 What are some factors that lead to France being able to take control over Vietnam? There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. 5 Minutes You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. 1 Web Search Define suzerainty 2 Map Search Use Bing Maps to locate China, France and Vietnam. What is the geographical proximity of these locations? 3 Identify 2 reasons the suzerainty of China over Vietnam was coming to an end in the late 19th century? 4 What advantage in the 18th and 19th centuries was there to France in having Vietnam as a colony of France? 5 What are some factors that lead to France being able to take control over Vietnam? You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. 1 Web Search Define a suzerain (Possible Search Query: “Define suzerain”) Sources Bing Dictionary Definition of suzerain (n) Bing Dictionary su·ze·rain [ sóozərən ] controlling nation: a ruler or nation that controls a dependent nation's international affairs but allows it to control its internal affairs synonyms: superpower · colonial power · ruling nation

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. 2 Map Search Use Bing Maps to locate China, France and Vietnam. What is the geographical proximity of these locations? Students will click on my places in Bing Maps to locate and drop a marker on China, Vietnam and France. Students should be able to observe the geographical difficulty of getting from France to Vietnam. Sources China and Vietnam are right next to each other, France is connected by land, but still quite a distance away. Vietnam to France is nearly 6000 miles away as the crow flies. Travel to Vietnam from France would prove difficult due to the passage through or around several countries to get there.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. 3 Web Search Identify 2 reasons the suzerainty of China over Vietnam was coming to an end in the late 19th century? (Possible Search Queries: “suzerainty”, “suzerain Vietnam”, “suzerain Vietnam china”) Sources Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzerainty China Papers: http://mt.china-papers.com/2/?p=208283 Buszynski, Les. "Vietnam Confronts China." Asian Survey (1980): 829-843. The idea of a suzerain in a modern context does not make sense. Modern international law identifies a country as sovereign or not. Under a suzerain a country is awarded recognition as a country by another country. A tribute of some sort is paid for this recognition. China for the most part had nominal demands on Vietnam and their other suzerains.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. 4 Web Search What advantage in the 18th and 19th centuries was there to France in having Vietnam as a colony of France? (Possible Search Query: “France colonize Vietnam”) Sources Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%E2%80%93Vietnam_relations DePauw University: http://academic.depauw.edu/mkfinney_web/teaching/Com227/culturalPortfolios/VIETNAM/VIETNAM/history.html Asian Nation: http://www.asian-nation.org/colonialism.shtml Since the 17th century French Catholic missionaries have had a presence in Vietnam. This allowed the French government to claim a need to have an interest in protecting the missionaries. The ability to trade with Vietnam allowed France to export their goods such as tobacco, tea, indigo and coffee. In order to have a global presence, France needed to establish strategic geographic locations, Vietnam being one of them.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. 5 Web Search What are some factors that lead to France being able to take control over Vietnam? (Possible Search Query: ”France control of Vietnam”) Sources Vietnam - http://academic.depauw.edu/mkfinney_web/teaching/Com227/culturalPortfolios/VIETNAM/VIETNAM/history.html Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628349/Vietnam/52736/The-conquest-of-Vietnam-by-France Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vietnam Vietnam was under the control of another country for 1100 years. China held Vietnam as a suzerainty for centuries. Napoleon later was able to invade Vietnam which eventually led to colonization of Vietnam by France. With a presence in Vietnam through the placement of missionaries, as China’s influence on Vietnam lessened, France was establishing a claim in the area.

Describe how being a suzerainty of China lead to French control of Vietnam. This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.