Inquiry: What were the causes, nature and effect of French Imperialism in French Indo-China?
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ATL Focus: Researching in a traditional academic setting. Locating and selecting information from books and using MLA 8 citations. Categorising research according to focus areas.
Applications: History IA, research papers such as Extended Essays/IAs in other subjects, university assignments, safeguarding against plagiarism |
This unit is organised around a guided inquiry over four lessons and home work. You will need to stay organised, consciously think about every aspect of the process and reflect on the skills used as well as the history learned. Your inquiry will follow these steps:
1. Get an overview
2. Locating and selecting information.
3. Prioritising and evaluating ideas and arguments with your peers.
4. Evaluating historical significance and drawing conclusions.
1. Get an overview
2. Locating and selecting information.
3. Prioritising and evaluating ideas and arguments with your peers.
4. Evaluating historical significance and drawing conclusions.
1. Getting an Overview of Indo-China to 1914
ATL: Audio Visual Research using Cornell
Note taking focus is: How did the French change the lives of people living in 'Indo-China'?
ATL: Audio Visual Research using Cornell
Note taking focus is: How did the French change the lives of people living in 'Indo-China'?
Watch the sections of this video highlighted below, fill in the worksheet and read the extract about opium to gain an idea of the issues facing Indochina in the 18th century. You will also read sections of your text to add to your understanding.
Overview (0.00 to 9.13 minutes) and then China in Vietnam (9.13 to 11.15) French in Vietnam (11.15 to 16.11)
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Read the extract about opium in Vietnam. From this reading, what factors, with regards to imperialism, do you think might have affected Vietnam’s history and progress?
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Read Church section on Vietnam up to the colonial period. Create a diagram for "Pre-colonial Vietnamese History". Make it look something like the guide below and use the same prompts. Then flesh out each point and answer the question: What effect do all these factors have on the national psyche of the Vietnamese?
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To better understand the relative locations of colonies, colour in the French colonies on the map below (print a copy). This map will come in useful for adding other colonies as our studies progress.
Now, using the Church text, construct a timeline of colonial activity in Vietnam from 1789 and finish about 1914. Do remember that this timeline could extend to the end of the Vietnam War to include content for the unit "Cold War Conflict in Asia"
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Factors leading to colonialism
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Over time, the factors leading to colonialism changed. There were stages of imperialism and it is "New Imperialism" which was the phase which propelled France into Indochina. To understand these stages better, complete the worksheet, using the Cowie reading and the information on the worksheet.
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2. What do historians identify as the key political, economic, social and cultural motivations / impacts of French actions in Indochina?
ATL: Locating and selecting information using books
You will take one of the following themes: political, social, cultural and economic factors.
Use the Google Doc below which has been filled out (often incorrectly!) for you. In pairs/groups. Make a copy for your class to work on. Take a section and reallocate the information to the correct sections. Then turn all points into bullet points. Then go to the blue box of textbooks and fact check the information, adding, changing or deleting information from the original doc.
Resources:
- Using the variety of textbooks, including your own, practise researching effectively, using contents pages and indexes, to find information for each box (use the google doc below to create a template with headings but no content). For this exercise, do not go to other sources outside of the provided texts.
- Each piece of information needs to be referenced according to MLA 8, as in text citations and in a shared Works Cited List.
- Each student needs to look at a minimum of 4 textbooks.
- Group members must confer to agree on which points to include on the table. Look for consensus among historians. Add alternate perspectives. Aim to have about 5 salient points in each box. No more.
- Each group finds their information adds it to the class google doc of this table.
- Each student saves their own copy in their own notes at the end.
Use the Google Doc below which has been filled out (often incorrectly!) for you. In pairs/groups. Make a copy for your class to work on. Take a section and reallocate the information to the correct sections. Then turn all points into bullet points. Then go to the blue box of textbooks and fact check the information, adding, changing or deleting information from the original doc.
Resources:
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Once you have finished, complete the following cloze exercise to check your understanding. Add new information from the cloze exercise to the causes, nature and effect google doc which you just made.
Here are some other sources to use:
https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/europeans-in-vietnam/
https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/french-colonialism-in-vietnam/
Here are some other sources to use:
https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/europeans-in-vietnam/
https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/french-colonialism-in-vietnam/
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3. Was there any effective nationalist resistence to the French in Indo - China?
This lesson explores the extent to which there was consistent resistence to the French in Indo-China - how far had nationalism devleoped by 1914?
1. Open the note frame below and review the table.
2. Read at least two of the readings below. Complete the table using the readings. You are aiming for around 5-6 bullet points in each column.
3. Answer the final question
2. Read at least two of the readings below. Complete the table using the readings. You are aiming for around 5-6 bullet points in each column.
3. Answer the final question
Note Frame:
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Readings:
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