Taking a Stand: China’s Economic Future

A sample lesson plan used for the 2016 Teachers Workshop Curriculum Development Session

Author: Ken Klieman
Essential Question: How will China’s developing communist economic structure impact the world’s future?
Summary: 1) Participate in an experiential activity comparing Communist and Capitalist economic structures.
2) Following the debrief students will investigate websites, videos, and supplemental texts to explore the limitation of both Communism and Captialism
3) Students will then write an argumentative essay utilizing at least three resources
to answer the essential question: How will China’s developing communist
economic structure impact the world’s future?
Grade Level: 7th-12th grades
Subject Area: comparative economics, government
Keywords: government, economics
Lesson Duration  1-5 class sessions
Published July 27, 2016
Source 1990 Institute 2016 Teachers Workshop Curriculum Development Session

How to:

How to write a Argumentative Essay

Comparative Economies – Role Play

Entire Argumentative Essay on One Page

Performance Task Rubric

 

Additional Reading:

A Brief History of China’s Economic Growth

Capitalism’s Deeper Problem

How Communist Is China

Monetary Theory from a Chinese Historical Perspective

The Differences in Communism Russian & China

The Problem with Capitalism

 

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