[Complete Lesson Plan] Shinto And Japanese History (Made 2024 Spring Semester)

Teacher: Elliot Maxwell Sibert-Sweeney

Lesson: Shinto and Japanese History

Grade Level: 9th-10th (High School Freshman and Sophomores)

Subject Area: World History and Civilization

Length: 3 Days (~150 minutes split into ~50 minute class periods)

Lesson’s IAS World History and Civilization Standards (2023)

https://media.doe.in.gov/standards/indiana-academic-standards-world-history-and-civilization.pdf

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• W.H.2.1: Review the development and fundamental beliefs of major world religions and philosophies, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

• W.H.3.9: Examine the development of feudalism in Japan and its impact on Japanese society and government.

• W.H.7.1: Identify patterns of historical change and duration, and construct a representation that illustrates continuity and change.

• W.H.7.3: Investigate and interpret multiple causations in analyzing historical actions, and analyze cause-and-effect relationships.

Learning Objective/s

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Students will be able to outline the development of Shinto and Buddhism in Japan and explain their relationships to each other and to the history and politics of Japan up to the end of the Edo Period.

Materials Needed

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Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Presentation (Included Here)

Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Note Sheets - (Included Here)

Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Day One, Two, and Three Exit Tickets - (Included Here)

Teacher Resources

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B.H. Chamberlain, “The Kojiki.” Internet Sacred Text Archive. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://sacred-texts.com/shi/kojiki.htm.

Colcutt, Martin. “Nara and Heian Japan (710 AD - 1185 AD).” Japan Society. Accessed April 28, 2024. https://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/nara_and_heian_japan_710_ad_-_1185_ad_1#sthash.vg8Y7LRt.WqhhB1Zj.dpbs.

“Japanese History.” Asia Society. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://asiasociety.org/education/japanese-history.

Naokazu, Miyaji. “What Is Shinto?” Contemporary Religions in Japan 7, no. 1 (1966): 40–50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30232984.

“The Age of the Samurai: 1185-1868.” Asia For Educators. Accessed April 28, 2024. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1000ce_samurai.htm.

Toshio, Kuroda, James C. Dobbins, and Suzanne Gay. “Shinto in the History of Japanese Religion.” Journal of Japanese Studies 7, no. 1 (1981): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/132163.

Wyatt, Paul. “Shintô,” Asia For Educators. Accessed April 28, 2024. http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1000bce_shinto.htm.

Lesson Procedure

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DAY ONE

1. To prepare students for the lesson to come and get them interested, tell the story of Amaterasu and the cave, asking students questions while doing so and encouraging them to predict the story or interpret parts of it. (10-15 minutes max)

2. Hand out the Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Notes Sheet to all students present, open the Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Presentation, and introduce the topic of the day’s lesson. (3-5 minutes)

3. Go through the presentation with the students present, asking questions regularly, asking for interpretations regularly, and asking for questions regularly. (20-25 minutes max)

4. Before the end of the first day of the lesson, stop presenting and hand out Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Day One Exit Ticket to all students present. Students are then to fill out the exit ticket for roughly 5 minutes before being asked for their answers. Students will be picked to explain their answers briefly until the bell rings and class is dismissed. Students will leave their Exit Tickets on their desks as they leave to be collected during the passing period. (~10 minutes)

DAY TWO

1. To review the content of the previous day of the lesson and to prepare students for the lesson’s continuation, call on students to explain the most important points of the previous lesson, preferably without using their Note Sheet, but using it is not to be strictly prohibited. (~5 minutes)

2. Open the Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Presentation, and introduce the topic of the day’s lesson. (~3 minutes)

3. Go through the presentation with the students present, asking questions regularly, asking for interpretations regularly, and asking for questions regularly. (30 minutes max)

4. Before the end of the first day of the lesson, stop presenting and hand out Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Day Two Exit Ticket to all students present. Students are then to fill out the exit ticket for roughly 5 minutes before being asked for their answers. Students will be picked to explain their answers briefly until the bell rings and class is dismissed. Students will leave their Exit Tickets on their desks as they leave to be collected during the passing period. (~10 minutes)

DAY THREE

1. To review the content of the previous day of the lesson and to prepare students for the lesson’s continuation, call on students to explain the most important points of the previous lesson, preferably without using their Note Sheet, but using it is not to be strictly prohibited. (~5 minutes)

2. Open the Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Presentation, and introduce the topic of the day’s lesson. (~3 minutes)

3. Go through the presentation with the students present, asking questions regularly, asking for interpretations regularly, and asking for questions regularly. (30 minutes max)

4. Before the end of the first day of the lesson, stop presenting and hand out Shinto and Japanese History Lesson Day Three Exit Ticket to all students present. Students are then to fill out the exit ticket for roughly 5 minutes before being asked for their answers. Students will be picked to explain their answers briefly until the bell rings and class is dismissed. Students will leave their Exit Tickets on their desks as they leave to be collected during the passing period. (~10 minutes)

LESSON END