Alabama Social Studies SS24.8.16c
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.
Compare the policies of absolutism and social structures of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan to European monarchies.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how Tokugawa shoguns, French kings, and Russian tsars kept power. They use examples such as alternate attendance, court life at Versailles, and Peter the Great's reforms. They compare social ranks in Japan with French estates and Russian nobles and serfs.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that the shogun governed Japan while the emperor held little political power. They can describe how alternate attendance controlled daimyo and how Louis XIV used Versailles to keep nobles close. They can place farmers and merchants in Japan's ranks and France's Third Estate.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call the Tokugawa emperor the ruler or confuse daimyo with peasants. They may think Japan had no foreign contact or that every European monarchy followed the same policies.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did the Tokugawa shogun and Louis XIV each control powerful nobles? Name one policy each used, then give one difference between Japan's social ranks and France's estates.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards labeled shogun, daimyo, samurai, farmers, merchants, king, clergy, nobles, and Third Estate; have them build two social ladders.
Ask, 'How did alternate attendance and Versailles each limit nobles' power?' Have students write one detail about each policy.
Play policy match with cards for alternate attendance, Versailles court life, and Peter's beard tax; students name each ruler and explain the policy.
Show a grocery receipt and ask where merchants and farmers ranked in Tokugawa Japan and Louis XIV's France.
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