Final essay

[Stella Castro]

I intend to incorporate East Asia in my teachings/class room by first of all I can take my students on field trips to the Gamble House in Pasadena, and telling my students that Sydney Gamble a member of the Gamble family, was a famous photographer that took many pictures of the Chinese.
Then I can also take then to the Huntington Library and teach them about the plants while strolling though the botanical gardens, emphasizing the Japanese teahouse, and the architecture of the Japanese culture. The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, (Little Tokyo) is where it’s dedicated to the history of Japanese Americans. Then there is the Korean Friendship Bell in San Pedro. San Pedro is great city to teach my students about East Asia as there are many places here that would accommodate these teachings. First of all the there is the Korean Bell of friendship, the students can learn not only about friendship, (that actually is a standard for my students, as I use the alternate curriculum). I could tech them how to get along with people of all races,(friendship).I can teach my students about the wars in China ,Japan and about the import and exporting of goods as San Pedro is a port and has ships, (opium War), and trade. Then docked in San Pedro is the war ship the USS Iowa, and here again I can teach my students about the self-strengthens and how they wanted to improve the/their military, and visiting San Pedro they can see the actual ship and their maritime museum these places pertaining to East Asia in the sense that people of East Asia had to go through wars, using their militaries, arms and Weapons,, and travel to places via ships. The city of San Pedro can be used also as a geography lesson, in a compare contrast lesson to the map of East Asia.
I can incorporate visiting China town as a Science lesson about the five senses focusing particularly on the sense of taste and we can go to a Chinese restaurant and eat and taste their cuisine. Back in the classroom I can then show them how to prepare a simple Chinese dish, for instance egg rolls.
Then there is the Museum of tolerance the lesson would be in the History subject matter and my students can learn all about the Holocaust. and how the Chinese people in Shanghai were welcoming to the Jewish people as they were trying to leave Nazi controlled Europe on the eve of World war ll.
There are many places here in Los Angeles that can be tied to learning about East Asia All aforementioned places have much great history behind them that there is an array of possible lesson plans to accompany any and all these places.

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