Exploring the Impact that Industrialization had on Japanese Culture

Essential Question

What was Japanese culture and goals like before Matthew Perry arrived in 1853 from the United States?
Why did the country of Japan so quickly give up their pre-industrial ways to be like Europe and America?
Did the industrialization of Japan ultimately lead them to the path of being expansionist and a war machine in the 1930's to feed their new way of living?

Texts

Literature

Seventeen Syllables

Rosie's mother and father did not marry out of love, and her mother writes haiku as an escape. After entering a contest, a man comes to deliver her prize—a framed picture. Angered by this intrusion, Rosie's father destroys the picture. In her anguish, Rosie's mother explains her marriage to her daughter.

Hisaye Yamamoto

Grade Level

9-12

Subject

History

Geography

Topic

Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

July 7, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Community Inquiry

Socratic Seminar

A structured discussion in which students examine issues and respond to open-ended questions about a text. Students use dialogue rather than debate to communicate with each other.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RI.6-12.1, SL.6-12.1, SL.6-12.3, SL.6-12.4, SL.6-12.6

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

Are You Convinced?

Are You Convinced? asks students to demonstrate their argumentative and evaluative writing skills.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

W.6-12.1, W.6-12.4, W.6-12.9

July 19, 2014

Write to the Source

Break It Down

Break it Down asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and descriptive writing skills.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

W.6-12.2, W.6-12.4, W.6-12.9

July 19, 2014

Plan Built By

Trenton Burton

Exploring the Impact that Industrialization had on Japanese Culture

Seventeen Syllables

Socratic Seminar

Are You Convinced?

Break It Down

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