Women of the Silk Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Gail Tsukiyama
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Women of the Silk Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Gail Tsukiyama
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1

• Pei waits impatiently for her mother, Yu-sung, to give birth.

• She needs only privacy, so Pei focuses on her favorite item in the house, a silk painting depicting a scene with five birds.

• The midwife announces the birth of a baby girl.

• Pao, Pei's father, expresses his displeasure at the baby's gender because he would prefer a boy to eventually help in the fields.

• Pei has many questions, but her father is too busy with the family farm to answer them, and her mother is distracted.
• Yu-sung married Pao at 16.

• It was an arranged marriage, and she had a difficult transition into married life.

• Pao's family descends from the Hakka tribe and are taller than most Chinese, with flatter facial features.

• Pao is illiterate and quiet; Yu-Sung reads and writes and is used to a clean house and lively family life.

• Before her marriage, she had never...

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