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Planning for Treaty Negotiations Lesson PlanPlanning for Treaty Negotiations Lesson Plan
Publisher
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2015
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Planning for Treaty Negotiations

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This Planning for Treaty Negotiations lesson plan also includes:
  • Intelligence Briefing Planning Sheet (.pdf)
  • Land-Based Trade Policy Options Worksheet (.pdf)
  • Sample Treaty Proposal (.pdf)
  • Sea-Based Trade Policy Options Worksheet (.pdf)
  • Treaty Planning Worksheet (.pdf)
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The party is over. Now it's time to get to work! Learners acting as agents for a country during the modern Age of Empires develop proposals to negotiate trade deals between the rising global powers. Using research from previous lessons, class members try to navigate the interconnectedness of the emerging modern world. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

treaties, empires, the british empire, the mughal empire, the ottoman empire, trade, trade routes, the ming dynasty, the qing dynasty, china, the dutch, the netherlands, russia, persia, the persian empire, spain, portugal, west africa, role playing

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Create trade treaties based on previous role-playing activities
  • Adapt the lesson to other areas of study, such as negotiating the end of a war

Classroom Considerations

  • Activity is sixth of seven lessons in The Diplomacy Challenge 

Pros

  • Activity involves high level of synthesis and collaboration
  • Worksheets make scaffolding activity simple

Cons

  • None

Common Core

WHST.9-10.6

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