Essential Question:

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Essential Question
Lesson 13

• What are the keys to understand when examining
  cause and effect relationships?

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Journal Topic

• The good and the bad about competition

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The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind

• Allegory
• A story in which characters and setting stand for
  abstract ideas or moral qualities
• An allegory can be read on 2 levels
• Surface level
• Symbolic level
• The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind is an allegory
  about the Cold War where the United States and
  The Soviet Union began competing for world
  dominance

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The Cold War

• After WW II, the Soviet Union developed atomic
  bombs in an attempt to assert its military might
• The United States followed this action by
  building a new weapon the hydrogen bomb
• What followed was a several decades-long arms
  race with both countries trying to maintain a
  nuclear edge against the other

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Plot Summary

• A Mandarin leader engages in a wall-building
  race with a rival city in order to achieve
  supremacy and security
• Each effort to build a new wall results in a
  similar response from the neighboring city
• As the wall race continues, and more and more
  effort and resources are expended, the Mandarins
  city begins to suffer

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Plot Summary

• Finally, a meeting between the leaders of both
  cities is arranged
• At the meeting, it is decided that each will
  build such a wall (in the shapes of a kite and
  the wind) that demonstrate co-dependency upon
  each other.

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The Allegory

• Cooperation between nations (and not competition)
  leads to safety and security for all
• The 2 cities became weaker, more exhausted, more
  impoverished the longer the wall race went on
• There was not true security (the purpose of the
  wall) until both sides talked with each other

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Cause and Effect

• At your desks
• Create a diagram showing the series of cause and
  effect actions taken by both cities during the
  story
• What motivates the two cities to engage in the
  wall race? What are the negative effects of
  this competition?
• Why do the 2 leaders finally agree to put an end
  to the wall race?