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Part I (Pages 1 - 57)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Khor, Shing Yin. The Legend of Auntie Po. Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 2021.

• This book is written in the present tense and from the first person perspective.

• In Chapter One, Mei is a young teenage Chinese-American girl living in a Sierra Nevada logging camp.

• Mei's father, Hao, is the head cook at the camp, and he runs the kitchen. Mei helps with the work.

• Mei has many jobs, and one of them is ringing the dinner bell daily.

• In her narration, Mei says this is a story about gods and men.

• Every night, Mei and her father feed 100 lumberjacks and 40 additional Chinese workers at the camp.

• The Chinese workers do not receive board.

• Hao has a shrine in his and Mei's cabin where he prays every day. He mostly asks...

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