Daily Lessons for Teaching On China

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Prologue; Preface; Chapters 1-2 China is known for being the first country to have a powerful and successful Navy. This lesson focuses on China's naval system, boats, and why this was important to the country, past and present.

1) 1) Class Discussion: Kissinger states: "...in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, between 1405 and 1433, China launched one of history's most remarkable and...
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