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SET-UP-THE-SUB LEARNING GUIDE TO:

DEFYING THE CROWN -- INDIA 1930

USING A SNIPPET FROM "A FORCE MORE POWERFUL"

Subject:     World History and Culture - India; Nonviolence

Ages:        12+

Length:     Snippet: 25 minutes; Lesson: Two 45 - 55 minute class periods depending on how deeply teachers want to go into nonviolent mass action.

Mahatma Gandhi Addressing a Crowd


Learner Outcomes/Objectives:     Students will learn about Mahatma Gandhi, the development of nonviolent mass action, and the Indian movement for independence. Students will retain strong mental images of Gandhi and the origins of nonviolent mass action.

Rationale:     Knowledge of nonviolent mass action and of the Indian independence movement is important for any student of modern world history.

Description of the Snippet:     This is the second segment of the documentary, "A Force More Powerful". The film describes six occasions in which nonviolent mass action changed governments or promoted social reform.
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This Set-Up-the-Sub Learning Guide provides instructions to the substitute and discussion questions to introduce classes to India, its independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent protest as a force for change.




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The Set-Up-the-Sub Learning Guide for Defying the Crown - India, 1930 shows how to give a substitute teacher the tools to keep a class learning while the teacher is absent. This lesson teaches about the Indian movement for indpedence, Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolence.

Last revised on June 5, 2009.




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