The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
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Author: Bette Bao Bao Lord

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Discussion Themes: Baseball, Families adapting to new countries, Sterio types of Chinese people, Cultural Issues  
Discussion Ideas:

1. Some of the problems when you come to a new country.
2. We discussed some of the things that happened in the year that this story took place.
3. How Jackie Robinson's life helped her adapt to her new country.

Suggested Activities and Food :

1. We went to a chinese resturaunt called Lotus.
2. There we ate chinese and drank our tea.
3. Then we discussed the book.
4. We went to Dairy Queen afterwards.

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