Medieval Japan (Samantha Wohl)
This unit, intended for seventh grade students and designed in accordance with the California history/social science standards, offers a month of lessons. Students build individual portfolios on Japan between the eighth and sixteenth centuries.

Japanese and Chinese Culture (Melissa Mertz)
In California, seventh grade world history courses cover Rome, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. This collection of five lessons addresses the California Asia-focused standards. Two of the lessons (Bound Feet and Philosophy) focus on China and three (Tea Ceremony, Haiku, and Language) focus on Japan.

Two collections of lessons employ Katherine Paterson's Sign of the Chrysanthemum.

Linking Story and History (Jennifer Hahn)

Medieval Japan through Sign of the Chrysanthemum (Sheila Calpin)

 Draft Lessons:

Creating Japan: Religion, Bureaucracy, and Unification

The World of the Shining Prince

House Rules and Signs

Becoming a Samurai

The Arts of Medieval Japan