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In this lesson, the students will learn about Mahatma Gandhi and the ways in which he changed India politically, economically, and socially. They will also gain insight on the imperialism of India. These goals are achieved through the process of collaborative learning. I will first divide the class into five different groups. One group will do research about the imperialism of India by Great Britain. They should include the laws and restrictions that were imposed on the Indian people. The second group will be assigned to research about the Indian National Congress, which was founded in 1885. They are to find the reasons as to why the INC’s initial support of the British rule of India began to change. The third group will research about Gandhi’s early life in South Africa. They will research about Gandhi’s first encounters of racial prejudice while on a train ride, how that event and others like it led to peaceful protests in South Africa, and how Ruskin’s // Unto His Last //influenced his life philosophy. The fourth group will research about Gandhi’s time in India. They will learn about the Tragedy of Chauri Chaura, the Salt March of 1930, and the “Quit India” movement. The final group will talk about the partition of India and Pakistan and India’s independence, including Gandhi’s assassination. Once all of the groups have researched and collected information, the next activity will be a jigsaw. In this activity, one person from each group goes to a different group. So now the groups should have at least one person from each of the five groups. Once in the new groups, they should share their information that they found in their original groups. The final part of this lesson will be that the new groups come up with a poster, a song, a powerpoint, etc that encompasses all of the information that was learned. They will present this final portion to the entire class. At the end of this lesson, there should be five unique presentations about Gandhi and his influence in South Africa and India.
 * Obj. 8.01 Change through non-violent resistance: A method used by Gandhi **