1. Let’s Review First...
In your warm up section answer the following questions in complete sentences…
What was the Cultural Revolution?
What was the reason for the Cultural Revolution according to the following people:
The Chinese People
Chairman Mao Zedong

2. Discuss the following questions with your shoulder partner...
What group is the figure in the center a member of?
What do the items in the lower left hand corner represent?
What is he doing to these items?

3. Mao’s Little Red Book Collection of Mao’s thoughts on various topics
Included excerpts from speeches and writings of Mao
Printed in small versions so people could carry it
Handbook for the Red Guards
One of the most published books in history

4. Creating Your Own Little Red Book
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Use the set of quotes about different aspects of life to create your own Little Red Book
You will use two pieces of copy paper to create your Little Red Book

5. Directions for Your Little Red Book
Each page of your book will discuss a different topic about life highlighted on your sheet of quotes:
Classes and Class Struggles
Youth
The Correct Handling of Contradictions Amongst the People
War and Peace
Correcting Mistaken Ideas
Criticism and Self Criticism

6. Creating Your Little Red Book
Create a cover for your Little Red Book
Read through the quotes for each topic for your book
Choose one of the quotes for each topic…
Rewrite the quote
Tell me what it means IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Do you agree or disagree with the quote? Why?
Create an illustration for the quote
Turn in the book once completed

7. Exit Ticket #1 What did the Little Red Book consist of?
Chairman Mao’s thoughts and opinions on various topics
Joseph Stalin’s thoughts and opinions on various topics
Five thousand years of Chinese history
List of names of those in the Black Categories

8. What group viewed the Little Red Book as a sacred text? The Bolsheviks
Exit Ticket #2
What group viewed the Little Red Book as a sacred text?
The Bolsheviks
The Communists
The Allied Powers
The Red Guard