To help bring the history of San Francisco to life, the second and third graders hopped on MUNI and visited Chinatown. We explored the famous Dragon Gate at the entrance, walked by the Sing Chong Building, which was rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire, visited the legendary Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, read the marker at the site of the first public school in California in Portsmouth Square (the same school Mamie Tape and her family tried to enroll in that led to the Tape vs. Hurley California Supreme Court Case), and had lunch and played at St. Mary’s Square.
Thanks for a fantastic Edible Social Studies unit. See you next year!
