Appreciating Our American Heritage Designed to help students develop appreciation for Chinese culture and their own through readings and discussion. Asia Through a Glass Darkly Explores stereotypes Westerners have held of Asians, including the Chinese. Includes reading, handout, and discussion questions. Chinese immigrants faced in this country, and relate it to issues facing immigrants today. An online teacher's guide to facilitate discussion on Chinese immigration, and compares it to European immigration.
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Focuses on their settlement in California's Santa Clara Valley. Chinatowns in the U.S. Chinatowns Students explore their perceptions of Chinatowns, read and summarize an article about them, and use latitude and longitude information to locate Chinatowns in American and throughout the world. Chinatowns and Chinese Communities in America Students take a field trip to a Chinatown, and working in teams, record landmarks, and activities they notice, interview a community member, and write essays. Lesson plan allows students to become exposed to a different cultural group and learn about the development of this particular community, at the same time they learn research skills. Chinatown Resource Guide A curriculum unit based on a PBS documentary about Chinatown.