Mobilizing People: Public Health Campaigns in China
Grade Levels
High School (9-12)
Academic Topics
- History of Public Health
- World Languages
Time Needed:
Three 40-minute class periods
Overview
Mobilizing People: Public Health Campaigns in China uses several online Chinese public health posters from latter part of the 1900s and early 2000 as primary sources. Students work with these posters, applying their existing knowledge of spoken and written Chinese as well as acquiring new vocabularies. In Class 1, Procedures below students review and learn vocabulary in the context of several key events in China from 1949–1970s, and four Chinese Public Health posters from the same era. In Class 2, Procedures below students learn and practice command sentence structure in Chinese from those public health posters used to mobilize people. In Class 3, Procedures below students closely examine a poster from 2003, to assess how language is used to mobilize people in public health campaigns in China—e.g., rhymes, simplified vs. traditional characters, command sentence structures, etc.
Classes
Learning Outcomes
After completing the Mobilizing People: Public Health Campaigns in China module, students are expected to:
- speak and read Chinese characters for the Patriotic Health and Four Pest campaigns
- name at least two key events or people in China between 1949–1970
- acquire a minimum of five new Chinese words in one of or both simplified and traditional characters
- interpret written and spoken language from the public heath campaigns posters in China
- For extension activity: create a public health poster in the style of the Chinese posters to achieve the goal of communicating a health message and mobilizing people
National Education Standards
- Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
- Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
- Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures