1. China and its rulers activities

2. What was life like in China in the 1800’s?
Distinctive characteristics of Imperial China
Step One: Identify what characteristic of Imperial China each picture represents.
Step Two: Use pages 2-11 of your textbook to note down key details about each characteristic.
Step Three: How far do the characteristics of Imperial China work together to mean that it was predisposed towards continuity? (Linking factors together)

3. What was life like in China in the 1800’s?

4. How did the CCP change at Yanan during the years 1934-1945?
There are 6 ways in which the CCP changed during the years In your groups you are each going to come to embody one of these changes.
Step One: Research and produce a factsheet on your change for your group (come to next lesson with 6 copies of your factsheet).
Your factsheet should cover: What happened? How does this represent a change in the CCP?
Xian Incident
Mao’s ideas
Control of the countryside
Role of the Red Army
Rectification of conduct campaign
Relations with the USSR

5. How did the CCP change at Yanan during the years 1934-1945?
There are 6 ways in which the CCP changed during the years In your groups you are each going to come to embody one of these changes.
Step Two: Next lesson you will be embodying your factor by making a tabard showing the main details/changes you have researched.
Step Three: You will work with your group to physically present the changes – their importance, how one change led to the next – use your body positioning and your string!

6. How did the CCP change at Yanan during the years 1934-1945?

7. What were the key features of the Hundred Flowers Campaign?
Causes
Results
Events

8. To what extent was the Great Leap Forward a success?

9. Great Leap Forward a success?
To what extent was the
Great Leap Forward a success?
NB: You could
choose to draw two athletes in each round i.e. how happy will Mao be? How happy will the Chinese people be?
4. Annotate your sandpit explaining the rationale for the policy + your justification for the ‘success of the athlete.
What are Mao’s aims?
Label your Mao
3. Decide how successful Mao was at achieving his aims in each round and draw your athlete in the corresponding part of the sandpit.
2. Use handouts (chapter 9 of Stewart) to find out about each round of long-jumping.
5. Answer the question: to what extent was the Great Leap Forward a success?

10. You will end up with 6 Long Jump Sandpits…
3. Decide how successful Mao was at achieving his aims in each round and draw your athlete in the corresponding part of the sandpit.
4. Annotate your sandpit explaining the rationale for the policy + your justification for the ‘success of the athlete.
2. Use handouts (chapter 9 of Stewart) to find out about each round of long-jumping.
4 No’s Campaign (your warm up jump)
Housing (the peoples communes)
Agriculture
Industrialisation
Political Freedom (Peng Dehuai and the Lushan Conference)
The availability of food (famine)

11. You will end up with 6 Long Jump Sandpits…
4. Annotate your sandpit explaining the rationale for the policy + your justification for the ‘success of the athlete.
5. Answer the question: to what extent was the Great Leap Forward a success?
4 No’s Campaign (your warm up jump)
Housing (the peoples communes)
Agriculture
Industrialisation
Political Freedom (Peng Dehuai and the Lushan Conference)
The availability of food (famine)

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OCR acknowledges the use of the following content: slides 2 and 3 – Chinese Emporer Fu Hsi: Wellcome Trust, UIG/Collection/quest.eb.com/EDIT, Chinese statue: Craig Hanson/Shutterstock.com, Finger on lips: Tribalium/Shutterstock.com, Globe: Tatiana53/Shutterstock.com, Chinese flag: Natalie Tepper/Arcaid Picture Library/UIG/quest.eb.com/EDIT, slide 7 – flower outline (right): N I R V A N A/Shutterstock.com, slide 8 – long jump (left): Goran Bogicevic/Shutterstock.com, long jump landing (right): Mark Dadswell/Getty/UIG/quest.eb.com/EDIT
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