Students will enter the project through a role-based historical simulation, use images and short sources to notice how major political shifts altered daily life and legitimacy, and record an initial evidence-based prediction and inquiry direction for the investigation ahead.

Students will investigate how major events from 1911 to 1949 altered daily life, power, and identity for one Chinese family or social group by refining a focused historical question, evaluating primary and secondary sources, and planning a traceable evidence-gathering method for a cause-and-effect storyboard.

Students will gather and test evidence for their chosen family or social group, analyze patterns of continuity and change from 1911 through the Cultural Revolution, and turn that analysis into a revised storyboard draft with evidence-based captions, identified limitations, and a stronger historical claim.

Students will present their completed cause-and-effect storyboards to classmates in a gallery exhibition, defend their historical interpretation with evidence from primary and secondary sources, and complete a final journal reflection on continuity, change, power, and identity.