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2008 Other information on theme: ChinaNow
https://www.lsa.umich.edu/chinanow/index.asp
https://www.lsa.umich.edu/chinanow/about.asp
https://www.lsa.umich.edu/chinanow/language.asp
William Poy Lee
Photography by Traci Bartlow
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ADDITONAL READING FOR THE EIGHTH PROMISE
Chang, Iris
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History, 2003.
Fong-Torres, Ben
The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll,
1995.
Fong-Torres, Shirley
In the Chinese Kitchen, Shirley Fong-Torres, 1993.
Fong-Torres, Shirley
San Francisco Chinatown: A Walking Tour with Shirley Fong-Torres, 1991.
Genthe, Arnold and John Kuo Wei Tchen
Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown, 1984.
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
The Chinese American Family Album, 1994.
Lai, Him Mark, Genny Lim and Judy Yung
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940, 1991 edition.
Lai, Him Mark, Joe Huang and Don Wong
The Chinese of America 1785-1980
Larson, Louise Leung
Sweet Bamboo: A Memoir of a Chinese American Family, 2001.
Multicultural Living : Raising Our Children with Culture(s)
RESOURCES AND REFERENCES
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang (fkwang@aol.com), Asian-American Village Online Contributing Editor
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/village_asian_american.asp
Books For Educators And Parents
Half + Half—Writers on Growing up Biracial + Bicultural, edited by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn, Pantheon Books, New York, 1998.
Cultural Curiosity—Thirteen Stories about the Search for Chinese Roots, edited by Josephine M.T. Khu, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001
I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla—Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World—A Guide for Parents and Teachers, by Marguerite A. Wright, Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, 1998.
The Smart Parent’s Guide to Kids’ TV, Milton Chen, KQED, San Francisco, California, 1994.
Submitted by Robb on Sat, 10/13/2007 - 10:20am.
So your old friend moved to Nevada but you don’t know where. Try using the library’s research product Reference USA to find them. Reference USA is found on the library’s website under the Research tab.
Another very important & useful feature of this software is looking up businesses by region/etc and limiting the search to specific types of companies. It’s a great resource for sales & marketing leads. My search for info on ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERTS (MFRS) in Michigan yielded 40 businesses.
Use Reference USA at any Ann Arbor District Library location or from your home / business computer. Off site usage requires your Ann Arbor District Library card #.
Resources: 2007
Visit the Mountains Beyond Mountains Research Guide from Eastern Michigan University. It includes links to information about the book and author; interviews and with Paul Farmer; articles on global health; and photographs.
Reader's Guide for Mountains Beyond Mountains
Check out all the events surrounding the University of Michigan's LSA theme semester, "The Theory and Practice of Citizenship: From the Local to the Global."
Youth Booklists
Other books under consideration for the 2007 Reads:
Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein; with Don Cohen, Better Together: Restoring the American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster, c2003.
Beak of the Finch Study Questions
1. What is the scientific difference between evolution and natural selection?
2. What is variability and what part does it play in natural selection?
3. Describe the working conditions on Daphne.
4. What made Daphne and the Galapagos unique? Why were they the perfect places to prove Darwin’s theory?
5. Why are the Grants’ studies so distinct and therefore so valuable?
6. How did Darwin’s stay on the islands change his ideas?
7. How important was the dry season to the study?
8. Discuss the difference between science and philosophy.
9. Discuss some of the evolutionary effects of introducing non-native species to an area (e.g. Ash Borer, Asian Ladybugs)
Youth Book List: Revolutions in Science
Youth: K – 5th
Aldrin, Buzz
Reaching for the Moon
HarperCollins, c2005
Brallier, Jess
Who Was Albert Einstein?
Grosset and Dunlap, c2002
Byrd, Robert
Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer
Dutton, c2003
Ehrlich, Amy
Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson
Harcourt, c2003
Goodall, Jane
My Life With the Chimpanzees
Aladdin, c1996
Hopkinson, Deborah
Who Was Charles Darwin?
Grosset and Dunlap, c2005
Jenkins, Steve
Prehistoric Actual Size
Houghton Mifflin, c2005.
Submitted by amy on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 11:48am.
Jonathan Weiner's The Beak of the Finch was selected as the focus of the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads 2006. An eleven-member selection team, composed of community members, teachers, students and librarians from the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area chose this 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winner Tuesday night from a group of three books, all of which centered on the theme Revolutions in Science: the people, theories, explanations and discoveries that challenged our thinking and changed the world. The Beak of the Finch traces the efforts of Peter and Rosemary Grant, two scientists whose groundbreaking research on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution involved decades of study of thousands of birds on a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos.
Youth Titles on Cultural Treasures of the Middle East: K-12
Kindergarten - Grade 2 - Picture Books
Ali and the Magic Stew, by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim. 2002.
An original tale based on traditions from Iran, this story shows spoiled Ali learning to appreciate the plight of the poor beggar when his father suddenly becomes ill.
The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey, by Demi. 2004.
In this funny folktale from Turkey, the well-loved trickster and wise man Nasrettin teaches his friends a lesson in the importance of looking beyond appearance.
Nadia’s Hands, by Karen English. 1999.
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