Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

This Newbery Award-winning novel takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area at the turn of the century. It is the story of a Chinese boy, Moon Shadow (the narrator), who moves to Chinatown to be with his father, Windrider, who is working on a flying machine even as the Wright Brothers are. An historical novel, it depicts not only the lives of and discrimination against San Francisco's Chinese immigrants in the early 1900's, but also the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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Mah-Jong Tiles and a Crystal Radio

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Teacher'sCyber Guide from the San DiegoCounty Office Of Schools .
Internet Insights--Dragonwingsfrom the El dorado County Schools.
Dragonwings page from Frisbie Middle School.
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Here's a little more info on Fung Joe Guey (or more properly--Fong Yue), the inspiration for Dragonwings.
Scene inside an opium den. Here's another. (Both from the SF Museum.)
Effects and history of opium
History of Chinatown by the former police commissioner. (More gold from the SF Museum.)
Pictures of present-day Chinatown
Angel Island Home Page
More info on the 1906 SF earthquake--Including this pic from a balloon five weeks after the disaster.

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Study Questions for Chapters 1-7
Study Questions for Chapters 8-12
Vocabulary for the novel
Reading Check Quizzes
Chapter One "The Land of the Demons"
Chapter Two "The Company"
Chapter Three "The DragonMan"
Chapter Four "Tests"
Chapter Five "Windrider'sClaws"
Chapter Six "The Demoness"and Chapter Seven "Educations"
Chapter Eight "Earth, Wind,and Water"
Chapter Nine "The DragonWakes"
Chapter Ten "Aroused"
Chapter Eleven "Exile"
Chapter Twelve "Dragonwings"

Written Chinese explained
Written Chinese Characters I and II
Flashcards for ChineseCharacters
The Sounds of Chinese
Sayings of Confucius
Dime Novels
History of the stereopticon
Simple Gifts.mp3
1903Horseless Carriage
Groovy pic of an old dirigible.
The Official Wright Brothers Site
Principlesand Historyof Flight
Infoon the Feast of Pure Brightness
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Chinatown 1898--Photo from the SFMuseum

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/stereo/

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