1. Red Guards and “Anti-Revolutionary” Leaders
The image was a rare photo taken during a 1967 Chinese Cultural Revolution in which two Chinese citizens were branded as Capitalist Roader and hence subjected to physical abuse in the public
What is going on in this picture? What are the guards doing?

2. Chinese Cultural Revolution:
Why Chinese youth get swept up in the Cultural Revolution?
Uses and Abuses of Power
LT: I will analyze, construct, and defend a written historical argument using relevant primary and secondary sources as evidence about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. H 1(c)

3. Red Guards and “Anti-Revolutionary” Leaders
The image was a rare photo taken during a 1967 Chinese Cultural Revolution in which two Chinese citizens were branded as Capitalist Roader and hence subjected to physical abuse in the public

4. Analysis
The photographs were taken in February It shows Red Guards displaying leaders of “Anti-Revolutionary Groups.”
Many of the people targeted by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution were teachers and professors.
LT: I will analyze, construct, and defend a written historical argument using relevant primary and secondary sources as evidence about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. H 1(c)

5. Cultural Revolution Poster

6. Propaganda • What objects are in the foreground?
(Answer: Religious icons, literature, film reels. If you look very closely you see “USA” on one of the books.)
• What might these symbolize?
(Answer: Old traditions -- religion, literature, capitalism, and imperialism.)
• What is happening to these objects or symbols?
(Answer: The Red Guards are destroying them.)
LT: I will analyze, construct, and defend a written historical argument using relevant primary and secondary sources as evidence about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. H 1(c)

7. Continuation
• Whose picture is on the flag? (Answer: Mao Zedong.) • How are the Red Guards depicted? (Answer: They are depicted as valiant. They are shown as leading a multitude of people for their cause.)

8. Introduction
Today we are going to study the Cultural Revolution in China, which occurred between 1966 and 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. We are going to look at a number of documents and ask, “Why did Chinese youth get swept up in the Cultural Revolution?”
LT: I will analyze, construct, and defend a written historical argument using relevant primary and secondary sources as evidence about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. H 1(c)

9. Instructions In pairs…
Read documents A and B then answer guiding questions individually.
Class discussion
LT: I will analyze, construct, and defend a written historical argument using relevant primary and secondary sources as evidence about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. H 1(c)

10. Day 2
In pairs…
Read documents C and D then answer guiding questions individually.
Class discussion
Write a paragraph that answers the central historical question using evidence from the documents.
LT: I will analyze, construct, and defend a written historical argument using relevant primary and secondary sources as evidence about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. H 1(c)