Sequence of Events, Cause & Effect

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

I like to use the newspaper in Language Arts classwork. Today (5/28/12) in the LA Times is a story continuing the saga of Chen Guangcheng, focusing on how China government continues to guard the town and surroundings where the blind dissident was imprisioned before he escaped last month by climbing a wall at night and making his way to the U.S. Embassy, "Prisoner's gone, but guards remain" Not only does the article detail the security efforts that seem fruitless -- "after little blind guy escaped, they got frightened" says one of the town's elders -- but the news piece retells the entire Chen Guangcheng story. Students -- probably 10th graders, who study World History -- could take this article and after a close read, in small groups, outline the sequence of events starting with Chen's 2005 class-action lawsuit. Then, each group could analyze some of the cause and effect elements of this story from the perspective of: an individual to a town; an individual to a country; an individual to a world-wide cause.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-chen-thugs-20120528,0,5990316.story

[Anonymous]

Well I hope I'm doing this right! So a large Manchu Garden was built in the 1700's and then destroyed by the British and French in 1860. The textbook I use indicates there was a second Opium War in 1860, this time with the French along with the British. Could someone inform me of how this 1860 conflict came about? Prof. Dube said he visited Beijing in the early 80's and the Manchu gardens were still in riuns. Amazing!

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