1. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

2. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

3. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Epicenter

4. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
At 5:12 AM local time, on April 18, 1906, a foreshock occurred with sufficient force to be felt widely throughout the San Francisco Bay area. The great earthquake broke loose some 20 to 25 seconds later, with an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean just 2 miles west of San Francisco.

5. What genre is “The Earth Dragon Awakes?”
The Earth Dragon Awakes is a Historical Fiction. It is set in a real time and place, and tells about things that really happened; but it is a story and the characters are made up (not real).

6. The Earth Dragon Awakes is told from a third person point of view.
From which point of view is “ The Earth Dragon Awakes” told?
The Earth Dragon Awakes is told from a third person point of view.
The narrator is not in the story.
Words like “He or him” are used throughout the story.

7. It happened in the Spring of 1906. April 18th, 1906 at 5:12 am.
When does the San Francisco Earthquake begin?
It happened in the Spring of 1906.
April 18th, 1906 at 5:12 am.

8. Why do you think the story is called “The Earth Dragon Awakes”?
The characters are chinese. For the chinese, earth dragons simbolyze the change of the matter (earth moved and changed).
Many chinese arrived in San Francisco in the late 1800 due to The California Gold Rush and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

9. Why do you think the story is called
“The Earth Dragon Awakes”?
Many lived in what is now called “Chinatown”. An area where the government located them at that time.