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Chinese symbols and national Chinese symbols, Chinese inventions-Chinese invention list //**classwork for Tuesday 3/27, finish up on Wednesday 3/28**// to use for your **CHINA logo Artwork** (Use the letters CHINA to create a logo on white construction paper; color, shading, creativity, neatness, and accuracy counts!)

@Emperor Shi Huangdhi slam poetry- //**classwork for Thursday 3/29**// Make a slam poem as **The First Emperor** (a.k.a. Shi Huangdi) in **1st person** (you ARE Shi, so write using "I", "me", "my") YinYang from Daoism explained

//**Types of text:**// British News Article on Terracotta soldiers Amazon Book Review on Terracotta Warriors Short story on Terracotta by a Vietnamese author Factual Report on Terracotta Warriors found on National Geographic Facts Article on Terracotta Warriors by China Highlights Travel Agency

HW 16: Terracotta Warrior soldier's story- //**narrative essay Homework due Thursday 3/29**//

HW 17: Dedicate a song to Shi Huangdi- //**poem/song** **Homework due Thursday 3/29**// (like the example we saw with Lady Gaga) //**Some songs you may want to use:**// You can also use the music you made on buttonbeats as the background Tupac- It's just me against the world, It ain't easy being me LFMAO- "Shi Huangdi and I know it" "I'm Crazy and I Know It" MC Hammer "U Can't Touch This" "Shi Huangdi is Coming to Town" Pink Floyd "The Wall" Meja "It's All About the Money" Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive" Beatles "When I'm 64" - "When I'm 48" Beatles "Let It Be" - "Shi Huangdi"

//**Shi Huangdi Research and Notes:**// http://sqworl.com/l8vjo2


 * What qualities does Shi Huangdi have? How are these qualities affected by the location (setting= isolated China), time period (Warring States), and life's ambitions? ||

2. Land belonging to nobles was given to peasants 3. Standardized Chinese writing 4. Standardized Chinese law 5. Standardized Chinese currency (money) 6. Standardized Chinese weights and measures 7. Build a capital in Xian (where his mausoleum was discovered) 8. Built a system of roads 9. Expanded the Chinese empire 10. Built many palaces 11. Contributed to the Building of the Great Wall of China to impeded the nomadic Mongolian invaders || 1. Outlawed Confucianism and buried many scholars alive 2. Banned and burned all books unless he officially approved of them 3. Introduced taxes that were 20 times higher than before, and if you couldn't pay, you became a slave to work on the Great Wall 4. People who broke his laws or criticized his rules were sentenced to death 5. Strong enforcer of Legalism 6. Ordered people to build his mausoleum and the terracotta warriors to protect him in death ||
 * **Inventions and Achievements:** || **Negative Effects:** ||
 * 1. After 10 years of fighting, he brought the Warring Era to an end and made himself Emperor of many different people in Chinese history