Blog
Address:
http://ushistoryopendoorpolicy.blogspot.com/
Subject
Matter: United States
History
Grade
Level: 11th
Grade
Lesson
Objective:
Learners
will demonstrate an understanding of the United States efforts and
reasoning for the the Open Door Policy with China.
Subject Matter
Content Standard:
List
the purpose and the effects of the Open Door Policy. California
Performance Standard 11.4.1
Website Addresses
Used as Resources:
This website is the
Britannica Encyclopedia. The information provided beginning with a
thorough background, highlighting important figures and effects of
the Open Door Policy.
http://www.britannica
.com/EBchecked/topic/429642/Open-Door-policy2.
This is the United States
Department of State, Office of the Historian. The goal of the site
is to highlight major milestones including the Open Door Policy and
events surrounding it.
http://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/HayandChina
Student Research
Questions:
Essential
Question:
Explain
how the foreign trade issues in China encourage the United States
efforts to implement the Open Door Policy?
Subsidiary Questions :
1. Why was it essential to
the leaders in the US to gain the Chinese trading market?
2. How did the short term
remedy for American trade have on Chinese citizens?
3. What problems within
China occur due to the Open Door Policy?
4. Explain the reasoning
that ignited the Boxer rebellion.
5. What country benefited
the most from the Open Door Policy?
6. How did other
countries desiring to trade with China react to the Open Door policy?
7. What role did Japan
have and how did it effect the efforts to implement he Open Door
Policy?
8. How did the short term
remedy for American trade have on Chinese citizens?
9. How did the US
encourage the acceptance of the Open Door Policy?
10.How did the Open Door
Policy shape the US foreign policy in the years following?
Assessment:
In what ways did the use of the Internet promote student learning?
How will you assess student learning with this assignment?
The use of the internet
promotes student learning as it it is an avenue that they are
familiar with. The internet appeals to this generation of students as
it offers fast and plentiful array of research and information. I
will assess student learning with this assignment by using a rubric
to determine how will and thorough that they fulfilled the essential
parts of the questions asked. I will also possibly follow up on this
assignment with an in class short essay on the purpose and effect of
the Open Door Policy.
