FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX

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San Francisco, California



San Francisco
About This Scene
Classroom Activities
Introduce Vocabulary
A Walk Through Chinatown
Community Business
Suggested Questions
Additional Web Resources
Related Books

A Walk Through Chinatown:

  1. San Francisco is famous for its Chinatown. Most tourists who visit San Francisco make sure to put Chinatown on their itinerary.
  2. Take a virtual tour of Chinatown.

    Start at Grant Avenue and Bush Street to see the pagoda-like entrance to Chinatown. Click on the arrows to move down the streets.

    Do a 360 degree turn at Waverly Place and Clay Street.

    Stroll down Stockton Street.
  3. Consult this page for other areas of interest.
  4. Click on "Attractions" for photos, "History" and "Culture" (in the left-hand red column) for information:
    www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/attractions/index.html
  5. Information and photos:
    www.inetours.com/Pages/SFNbrhds/Chinatown.html
  6. Click on the map to see photos and more details of Chinatown:
    www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com/neighborhoods/

Standards: NSS-G.K-12.1 The World in Spatial Terms; NSS-G.K-12.4 Human Systems; NSS-USH.K-4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage


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Illustrations and excerpts from Adèle & Simon in America by Barbara McClintock.
Copyright © 2008 by Barbara McClintock. Published in August 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All rights reserved.