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  • Determine the impact of political, economic and social changes in the Edo and the Meiji periods.
  • Rank the three most important changes in the Edo and the Meiji periods that dramatically affected Japanese society.

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Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Specific Outcome 8.1.1 - Students will appreciate the roles of time and geographic location in shaping a society’s worldview (C, I, TCC, LPP)
Specific Outcome 8.1.2 - Students will appreciate how a society’s worldview can foster the choice to remain an isolated society (C, I, TCC)
Specific Outcome 8.1.3 - Students will appreciate how models of governance and decision making reflect a society’s worldview (C, I, TCC, PADM)
Specific Outcome 8.1.4 - Students will appreciate how a society’s worldview shapes individual citizenship and identity (C, I, TCC)
Specific Outcome 8.1.5.1 - In what ways did Japan isolate itself from the rest of the world? (PADM, LPP, CC)
Specific Outcome 8.1.5.2 - How did isolation during the Edo period lead to changes in Japan? (CC, PADM)
Specific Outcome 8.1.5.3 - How did the changes resulting from isolation affect Japan economically, politically and socially during the Edo period? (ER, PADM, CC, I)
Specific Outcome 8.1.5.5 - How did the shogun use the feudal system and the hierarchical social classes to maintain control of Japan? (PADM, CC)
Specific Outcome 8.1.6.1 - What were the motivations for the radical changes in Japan’s model of organization during the Meiji period? (ER, CC, PADM)
Specific Outcome 8.1.6.2 - How did Japan adapt to changes brought on by the transition from feudal to modern models of organization? (CC, TCC, I)
Specific Outcome 8.1.6.3 - How did the changes resulting from adaptation affect Japan economically, politically and socially during the Meiji period? (ER, CC, PADM)
Specific Outcome 8.1.6.4 - In what ways did changes resulting from isolation in the Edo period compare to changes resulting from adaptation in the Meiji period? (CC, TCC, I)
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.1 - Students will distinguish cause, effect, sequence and correlation in historical events, including the long- and short-term causal relations
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.2 - Students will use historical and community resources to organize the sequence of historical events
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.3 - Students will analyze the historical contexts of key events of a given time period
Specific Outcome 8.S.2.5 - Students will identify patterns in organized information
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.2 - Students will develop a position that is supported by information gathered through research
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.3 - Students will draw conclusions based upon research and evidence
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.5 - Students will organize and synthesize researched information
Specific Outcome 8.S.7.9 - Students will plan and conduct a search, using a wide variety of electronic sources
C Citizenship
ER Economics and Resources
CC Culture and Community
I Identity
LPP The Land: Places and People
GC Global Connections
TCC Time, Continuity and Change
PADM Power, Authority, and Decision Making
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