Session 2 (9/30) - From Monarchy to Republic

[Guadalupe Moreno]

I believe one way students can understand what the treaties affected and how it might till this day affect the perception of forigners is by providing them primary sources. Sections of the treaites themselves can allow students to disect them at a deeper level and put themselves in the shoes of thiose who originally recieved the document. Further I believe correlating it to an unequal treaty closer to home such as those created in the United Sates for Indigenous people can get them in the mindset of how they have occured throughout all of history. Making the treaties a bit more relevant by connecting it to situations still affecting us, the students can understand how these treaties could affect how the ones having it oposed on them suffer in gernerations to come. 

[Guadalupe Moreno]

Unfortunately, the winning country is always the beneficiary of the war. The Treay of Nanjing is an unfair treaty all around whch only weakens China even more, allowing others to take advantage of it. I think this would be an excellent moment to teach students the benefits of being the dominat power within history and how that allowed powerful nations to take advantage of others

 

[Ester Yang]

You perfectly broke down the lesson step by step. Instead of going straight into the economic growth and development, you gave an example using pencils so that students are able to better understand the unit. This is perfect for both primary and secondary students because even thought middle/high school students are aware of what they mean, some still have trouble understanding the real concept behind it. After students have made the real connection, you can go in depth of explaining the history with adding academic words. 

[Cynthia Jackson]

For the class debate I was on the side of the reform movement, so I wanted to present my mini-argument here. “Our country needs to change if we are to withstand attack, both cultural and physical, from western countries. In a twist of fate, we must employ the strategies of the countries we are building a defense against. If we do not adopt some western strategies in order to become stronger, then we will be forced to assimilate and take all of their customs in our greatests moments of humiliation. Let us look at the Japanese defeat of Russia. Japan, a country who has existed in our shadow for so long, adopted some, not all, of western culture. As it was their choice they selected that which made them strongest, and as a result defeated a power that is every bit as European as they are not like the rest of the empires in our part of the world. We must change our worldview as well; we must, like Japan now calls themselves, see China as a nation- one that can be strongest if we combine the strongest qualities of our empire with the strongest qualities of their monarchies.”

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