Socratic Seminar: Gender in China’s Cultural Revolution (High School)

This high-school-level resource provides educators with instructions and student materials for facilitating a Socratic Seminar on the topic of gender during China’s Cultural Revolution. This Socratic Seminar Resource Set includes the following:

• Teacher facilitation guide
• Hook resource: Is China’s Labor Force Equal?
• Text resources: Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung and “Leftover Women” Trailer Video
• Preparation resources:
  • Gender in China’s Cultural Revolution Vocabulary
  • Introduction: The Cultural Revolution
• Seminar Questions resource: Gender in the Cultural Revolution
• Extension resource: Cultural Revolution Exhibit Activity