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Planning for Treaty Negotiations

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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
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Additional Tags
social studies
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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