2. Warm-Up: Meet and Share your Mao Twitter feed! Agenda:
April 23, 2014
Central Historical Question: Why did Chinese youth get swept up in the Cultural Revolution?
Warm-Up: Meet and Share your Mao Twitter feed!
Agenda:
Warm-Up: Twitter feed; Mini-Lesson: Posters/Goal; Activity: Pairs- Documents and Guiding Questions; Exit Activity: Answer Central Historical Question
Announcements: Extra help, review book, practice!

3. Today we are going to study the Cultural Revolution in China, which occurred between 1966 and 1976.
In particular, we’re going to look at a group of youth called the Red Guards who were responsible for much of the violence and abuse of the Cultural Revolution.

4. Red Guards and “Anti-Revolutionary” Leaders
What do you see in this message?
What are the Red Guards doing?
What are the punishments?
Where are they being punished?

5. Cultural Revolution Poster
What objects are in the foreground?
What might these symbolize?
What is happening to these objects or symbols?
Whose picture is on the flag?
How are the Red Guards depicted?

6. Why did Chinese youth get swept up in the Cultural Revolution?
Turn and Talk: Predict
Why did Chinese youth get swept up in the Cultural Revolution?

7. • What were Mao’s goals for the Cultural Revolution?
Timeline
• What were Mao’s goals for the Cultural Revolution?
• What were some of the outcomes of the Cultural Revolution?
• Based on the timeline, why might teenagers have supported the
Cultural Revolution?

8. In pairs, read the documents and answer the questions.
Documents A and B
In pairs, read the documents and answer the questions.
Documents C and D: Excerpts from memoirs written long after the Cultural Revolution. How might the fact that these are memoirs produced long after the event shape how we read them?
Answer the guiding questions.

9. Why did Chinese youth get swept up in the Cultural Revolution?
Closure
On the sheet of loose leaf provided, answer the question below in paragraph form:
Why did Chinese youth get swept up in the Cultural Revolution?