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Mini-Lesson Three the Great Leap Forward
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Name: ____________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________ Ms.Reyes/Ms.Rust; Global Studies Mini-Lesson Three: The Great Leap Forward OBJECTIVE THREE ACTIVITIES : The Great Leap Forward (you must choose one). 50 points. 1. Answer the questions that follow, citing evidence from the text in your answers. Category Description Completeness (50 pts) Answers all the questions completely. Uses at least 3 vocabulary terms from the vocabulary list. Includes correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. 2. Re-write the story, from the perspective of Liang’s mother. Use your knowledge of the Cultural Revolution and include all mini-lesson vocabulary. Category Description Content (50 pts) Uses as least 4 vocabulary terms and outside information from your notes or textbook. Introduction: After the Great Leap Forward, China was in bad shape. Mao Zedong had told the Chinese people that their efforts were going to catch them up with the West (or Europe and America). Instead, parts of the countryside were ruined, and millions of people starved. Rather than catching up with the rest of the world, the Great Leap Forward had pushed China backwards. Leaders in the Communist Party started fighting with each other, and challenging Mao’s authority. So Mao and his wife, Jiang Qing, launched the Cultural Revolution. This was an attempt to get people committed to the Revolution, and to Mao, as well as to direct their anger about the Great Leap Forward towards Mao’s enemies in the Communist Party. The first step in the Cultural Revolution was called the “Hundred Flowers Movement”. Read the following excerpt from the book, Son of the Revolution , by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro. “My parents were deeply involved in all the excitement of working to transform China into a great Socialist country, eager to sacrifice themselves for others. They dreamed passionately of the day when they would be deemed pure and devoted enough to be accepted into the Party. It was only natural that family came second… In early 1957 the “Hundred Flowers Movement” had been launched. Its official purpose was to give the Party a chance to correct its shortcomings by listening to the masses criticisms. Mother didn’t know what to do. She really loved the Party and didn’t have any criticisms to make; the Party had given her a job and saved her from the most abject poverty. Still, her leaders said that everyone should participate actively in the movement, especially those who one day hoped to join the party. So, regarding it her duty to come up with something, she finally thought of three points she could make. She said that her Section Head sometimes used crude language and liked to criticize people, that he should give his housekeeper a bed to sleep on instead of making her sleep on the floor, and that sometimes when it came time to give raises, the leaders didn’t listen to the masses opinions. But then, with utterly confusing rapidity, the “Hundred Flowers Movement’ changed into the “Anti-Rightist Movement.” Perhaps the Party was caught off guard by the amount of opposition and felt compelled to crack down. Or maybe, as I’ve heard said, the “Hundred Flowers Movement had been a trap designed from the beginning to uncover Rightist elements. It was disastrous. My mother found out she had been given a Rightist “cap” solely because of those three criticisms she had made. Perhaps her Section Head was angry at her; perhaps her unit was having trouble filling its quotas…She know that a terrible wrong had been done…but there was no court of appeals. Mother was sent away to the suburb of Yuan Jia Ling for labor reform. My naïve and trusting mother went to work as a peasant.
Transcript of Mini-Lesson Three the Great Leap Forward
Name: ____________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________Ms.Reyes/Ms.Rust; Global Studies
Mini-Lesson Three: The Great Leap Forward
OBJECTIVE THREE ACTIVITIES: The Great Leap Forward (you must choose one). 50 points.1. Answer the questions that follow, citing evidence from the text in your answers.Category DescriptionCompleteness (50 pts) Answers all the questions completely. Uses at least 3 vocabulary terms from the vocabulary
list. Includes correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
2. Re-write the story, from the perspective of Liang’s mother. Use your knowledge of the Cultural Revolution and include all mini-lesson vocabulary.Category DescriptionContent (50 pts) Uses as least 4 vocabulary terms and outside information from your notes or textbook.
Introduction: After the Great Leap Forward, China was in bad shape. Mao Zedong had told the Chinese people that their efforts were going to catch them up with the West (or Europe and America). Instead, parts of the countryside were ruined, and millions of people starved. Rather than catching up with the rest of the world, the Great Leap Forward had pushed China backwards. Leaders in the Communist Party started fighting with each other, and challenging Mao’s authority. So Mao and his wife, Jiang Qing, launched the Cultural Revolution. This was an attempt to get people committed to the Revolution, and to Mao, as well as to direct their anger about the Great Leap Forward towards Mao’s enemies in the Communist Party. The first step in the Cultural Revolution was called the “Hundred Flowers Movement”. Read the following excerpt from the book, Son of the Revolution, by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro.
What is meant by “It was only natural that family came second…” in the first paragraph?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What was the purpose of the “Hundred Flowers Movement”?
“My parents were deeply involved in all the excitement of working to transform China into a great Socialist country, eager to sacrifice themselves for others. They dreamed passionately of the day when they would be deemed pure and devoted enough to be accepted into the Party. It was only natural that family came second…
In early 1957 the “Hundred Flowers Movement” had been launched. Its official purpose was to give the Party a chance to correct its shortcomings by listening to the masses criticisms. Mother didn’t know what to do. She really loved the Party and didn’t have any criticisms to make; the Party had given her a job and saved her from the most abject poverty. Still, her leaders said that everyone should participate actively in the movement, especially those who one day hoped to join the party. So, regarding it her duty to come up with something, she finally thought of three points she could make. She said that her Section Head sometimes used crude language and liked to criticize people, that he should give his housekeeper a bed to sleep on instead of making her sleep on the floor, and that sometimes when it came time to give raises, the leaders didn’t listen to the masses opinions.
But then, with utterly confusing rapidity, the “Hundred Flowers Movement’ changed into the “Anti-Rightist Movement.” Perhaps the Party was caught off guard by the amount of opposition and felt compelled to crack down. Or maybe, as I’ve heard said, the “Hundred Flowers Movement had been a trap designed from the beginning to uncover Rightist elements.
It was disastrous. My mother found out she had been given a Rightist “cap” solely because of those three criticisms she had made. Perhaps her Section Head was angry at her; perhaps her unit was having trouble filling its quotas…She know that a terrible wrong had been done…but there was no court of appeals. Mother was sent away to the suburb of Yuan Jia Ling for labor reform. My naïve and trusting mother went to work as a peasant.
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Why did Liang’s Mother submit the three criticisms of the Party?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why might the Party have changed the “Hundred Flower’s Movement” to the “Anti-Rightist Movement”? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Based on the reading, what do you think the term, “Rightist” means?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What were the results of Mother’s criticisms?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Predict the results of the “Hundred Flowers Movement”. What effect do you think this will have on China and its people at this time?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
