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What's In a Phrase? Finding Historical Understandings in an Immigrant Guidebook
In this activity students analyze a Chinese-English phrasebook from the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Students match phrases from the textbook to specific historical understandings, write their own historical understanding, and then [...]
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
A Country within a Country: Understanding San Francisco's Chinatown
In this activity, students use a range of primary and secondary sources about San Francisco's Chinatown (1880s-1920) to explore what the community meant to residents and to outsiders.
Tags: Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese Immigration, Common Core Reading, Common Core Writing, Group Work, Lessons in Looking
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Create a Walking Tour of San Francisco's Chinatown
In this activity students learn about the people and places, and the social rules that governed them, in San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1800s. Students develop a character based on the real people who lived in Chinatown, and then create a walking [...]
Tags: Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese Immigration, Common Core Reading, Group Work, Lessons in Looking, Role Play and Debate
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)