Alabama Social Studies SS24.8.16b
The Standard
- SS24.8.16
- Describe the governing policies in East Asia during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, including those of China and Japan.
Explain the effects of religion on Japanese society and politics.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe how Shinto and Buddhist practices shaped family and community life in Japan. They explain how Tokugawa policies toward Christianity and Buddhist temples affected worship and government control.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link a shrine festival to community life and temple registration to government monitoring of households. They can explain how the ban on Christianity limited worship.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think people had to choose between Shinto and Buddhism, though many practiced both. They may see the ban on Christianity only as a dispute over beliefs and miss the rulers' concern about outside influence and loyalty.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Why did Tokugawa officials require households to register at Buddhist temples? Give one effect on families and one effect on government control.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students shrine festival, temple registration, and Christian ban cards; have them place each on a society, government, or both mat.
Ask: Why did Tokugawa rulers require Buddhist temple registration, and how might that rule affect a Christian family?
Play a matching game with three policy cards and three consequence cards; partners explain each match using 'because.'
Compare a summary of the 1614 Christian ban with the First Amendment's religion clause; students write one difference in government power.
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Related Standards
- SS24.HG.7c
Explain how religion influences political views around the world.
- SS24.WH.5c
Analyze the rise of Japan’s power in East Asia beginning with the Meiji Restoration.
- SS24.8.16c
Compare the policies of absolutism and social structures of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan to European monarchies.
- SS24.HG.7
Describe ways religion influences cultures, citing examples from around the globe.
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