UNIT THREE
Chinese in New York:
Between Two Cultures

Unit 3 is about two Chinese Americans who were leaders of the Chinatown community in the early part of this century. In this lesson students are asked to reflect about the experience of being an immigrant "between two cultures."

ACTIVITY 1	Lee Towe and Pang Kwai-fong
ACTIVITY 2	Chinese American Labor
ACTIVITY 3	Bridges Between Cultures
ACTIVITY 4	Immigrants from Two Worlds
ACTIVITY 5	Comparing Cultures
ACTIVITY 6	What Makes a Leader?

TIME FRAME:

Two weeks.

PRODUCTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. Students' reports about a contemporary figure who is a leader in their community.

2. Students' display of cultural objects brought from their countries.

3. Students' multimedia collages of American images mixed with images from their cultures around the theme of cultural diffusion.

DOCUMENT 4

LEE TOWE, THE GREAT CHINESE EVANGELIST, 1861-1924
WPA Federal Writers' Project, NYC Unit Records

DOCUMENT 5

PANG KWAI-FONG--MERCHANT AND PHILOSOPHER
WPA Federal Writers' Project, NYC Unit Records

PHOTO 1

RESTAURANT, CHINATOWN

PHOTO 2

BARBERSHOP, CHINATOWN, 1981

PHOTO 3

WINDOW, CHINATOWN, 2000

PHOTO 4

STREET, CHINATOWN, 2000

PHOTO 5

BAKERY, CHINATOWN, 2000

WORKSHEET 3

COMPARING U.S. AND CHINESE CULTURE