7th Grade Civics Interactive Notebooks

Take your students on a journey through The Giver with this engaging geography-focused book study. Explore and compare China's and North Korea's culture and government systems to The Communities where Jonas and Lily lived. Your students will work cooperatively in groups to complete the interactive notebook activities related to each chapter. (Or this resource can be easily modified and completed on an individual basis)

The full interactive notebook resource covers all 23 Chapters of The Giver from a geographical perspective. Your students will walk away understanding the challenges that the citizens and the government of China and North Korea have faced and continue to face, as well as their successes and triumphs.

It is noted that this book study takes 3 weeks to complete, but it can be modified to complete in two weeks. If possible, geography & world history instructors are encouraged to work alongside the language arts instructor.

As always, we encourage instructors to modify the book study to meet students' needs and instructional time limits. By teaming up with the language arts instructor this book study can be implemented as an integrated curriculum and may save time, if needed.

Each chapter resource comes with:

• Detailed teachers instructions
• Student coloring cover page
• A student-guided table of contents
• Group reading
• Incorporates suggested audiobooks/readings for modifications
• Interactive notebook activities + Instructions
• Exit cards

Please visit each lesson to review the full list of geographical information and concepts being covered.

Chapter 1:

• China's One-Child Policy
• No Fly Zones
• China's Great Leap Forward

Chapter 2:

• North Korea's strange laws & heavy consequences
• Gulags, Power shortages in North Korea
• China's historical laws and policies
• China's Nation People's Congress (NPC)
• China's One-Child Policy Act of 1980
• China's Great Leap Forward Campaign

Chapter 3:

• Marxism and Communism in China
• Traditional Capitalism vs. Command Economy
• Robin Hood Theory
• Ideals vs Collectivism
• Poverty vs. Equality Regarding Worker's Rights in China

Chapter 4:

• Comparison of Elderly Treatment in North Korea, China, and The Community,
• China: Social Security & Welfare Availability
• China's Life Expectancy and Declining Birth Rates
• North Korea: Social Status, Poverty, Welfare Programs, & Discrimination
• North Korea: Rations, Command Economy

Chapters 5-6:

• North Korean Crimes Against Humanity — WHO (World Health Organization)
• North Korean Gulugs & Euthanasia
• North Korean and Chinese Defectors
• China's Historic Overpopulation Issues & Command Economy

Chapters: 7-8:

• China's Citizenship Requirements — Hukou System, Hukou Social Class System
• Review of Marxism, Communism & Collectivism
• North Korean & China's Higher Education Systems and Job Placement System
• Review of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward Campaign

Chapters: 9-10:

• Explore Kim Jung Un's childhood and life
• Compare similarities and differences between Jonas' life and Kim Jung Un's life
• Hereditary succession of power.

Chapter 11:

• China's Climate Control
• Examine problems, strategy & effects of China's climate control

Chapters 12-13:

• North Korea's and China's control media and censor content
• Government control of all aspects of the economy
• Limitations of freedom of speech and choices
• Communist authoritarian government, positives and negatives of "sameness.

Chapters 14-16:

• Explores the Cultural Revolution of China (1966-1976)
• The Civil War
• The importance of world citizens to study and understand events in geography and history and the outcomes
• Explore how having knowledge leads to independent thinking and choices

Chapters 17-19:

• Enculturation within societies
• Meaning behind "release," and how this relates to North Korea and China
• The Community's tactics for keeping sameness among its citizens
• Compare and contrast how The Community's Elders desire to suppress genuine emotion

Chapters 20-21:

• Causes of Defection from North Korea and China
• Comparison of North and Chinese Defectors' experiences with Jonas' defection into Elsewhere
• North Korea's March of the Suffering or the Great Famine

Chapters 22-23:

• North Korean & Chinese Defectors
• Application of the 5 geographical themes
• Review Activity

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