Evaluating China's One-Child Policy

Aims:
1. IWBAT explain why China's one-child policy was enacted and evaluate whether it was effective.
2. IWBAT identify positive and negative effects of China's one-child policy.

propaganda supporting China's one-child policy

Tasks:

1. Do Now: identifying sentence structures -- complete last activity on Reference #17

• Mild: Review sentence types:
• simple sentences have one independent clause
• compound sentences have two independent clauses joined by a comma and coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS) or a semicolon
• complex sentences have an independent clause joined to a dependent clause (and the dependent clause always begins with a subordinating conjunction, or WANNABE)
• Mild: Review or learn more about the sentence types (and see examples):
• read through detailed explanations and examples
• view sentence structure slideshow
• Medium: Try a practice quiz <-- RECOMMENDED PRACTICE
• Medium: Play sentence sort (please mute your Chromebook!)
• Spicy! Complete additional practice activities
• Spicy! Play sentence jeopardy

2. Homework Check: Coolest Inventions of 2013 (TFK)

3. Read About the One-Child Policy on BBC's "China's One-Child Policy -- Success or Failure?

4. Learn More About the One-Child Policy:

    

• additional article: Asia Education's "One-Child Policy--Too Many in the Family?"
• additional article: CNN's "A Brief History of China's One-Child Policy"
• additional article: CNN's "Activists allege forced abortions, sterilizations in China"

5. Complete Classwork to: (1) describe the one-child policy, (2) evaluate whether it was effective in reducing population growth, and (3) identify both positive and negative effects.

6. Read Chu Ju's House: Chapter 2 (pp. 19-39)

Homework: Independent and Dependent Clauses #2