Feudal Japan: Adapting a Neighbor’s Model: Social Studies Unit 5, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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Feudal Japan: Adapting a Neighbor’s Model is Unit 5 of World Geography and the Medieval World, 500-1500 CE (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 59 pages.

• Relative location of Japan to Tang China across the Sea of Japan
• Specific cultural features of Heian-period Japan
• The mechanism of selective cultural borrowing between Japan and Tang China
• The feudal loyalty chain in Kamakura-period Japan
• The general logic of land-based loyalty obligations in a feudal structure
• Specific instances of Shinto-Buddhist syncretism in Japan
• Bushido and the Confucian scholar-official ideal as two codes of conduct for a ruling or serving class
• Government structure, land ownership, and source of ruling authority in feudal Japan versus Tang/Song China
• The relative weight of personal loyalty versus codified law in Japan’s feudal system compared to China’s bureaucratic system
• The evidentiary gap between bushido’s formal codification and earlier samurai behavior

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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