Oklahoma Social Studies TOT.C.9.3.F

Social StudiesGrades 9–12Content Standards

The Standard

TOT.C.9.3: Trace the rise of communist influence in other regions of the world, including

Deng Xiaoping’s political and economic reforms.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · TOT.C.9.3

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain how Deng changed farming and business rules and opened parts of China to foreign investment. They describe new retirement rules for officials and why Communist Party control remained.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can explain how farm households sold surplus crops and why Shenzhen attracted foreign factories. They can describe retirement rules for officials and use the 1989 crackdown to show the limits of political change.
Common Misconceptions: Students may assume economic reforms brought free elections or ended Communist Party rule. Some think farm families gained private ownership of their land, though the land remained collectively owned.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Name one economic change and one political change under Deng. Explain one limit on political change, using a specific example.

Lesson moves

Model a collective farm with shared crop tokens, then give each pair a six-token quota and let them sell any surplus.
Give pairs short cards on official retirement rules and the 1989 crackdown; ask what changed in politics and what stayed the same.
Match household farming to surplus sales, special economic zones to export factories, and foreign investment to outside capital in a timed card game.
Show a printed Made in China phone label and ask how foreign investment and export factories helped make such products common.

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