2019 Korean History and Cultural Seminar for Educators - Handbook 2019 NKS Handbook-0617 | Page 17

Salary Point Homework (NA-14-231) Korean History and Culture Seminar (2 salary points) June 24-28, 2019 The educators who completed the requirements of the June 24-28, 2019 seminar on Korean history and culture will receive one salary point. For those who wish two salary points, they are to complete the following assignments that involve 60 hours of homework by August 1, 2019. You are to mail your homework to Mary Connor’s home at 505 Plymouth Road, San Marino, CA 91108 by August 1, 2019. Email questions to [email protected]. Please organize your responses by topic and questions in numerical order. Part I – Teaching East Asia: Korea Related Assignments The first assignments relate to Teaching East Asia: Korea, a resource book that all attendees received during the seminar week. Please word process your responses. When you are asked to take notes on book reading and videos, you may use a pen if this will save your time. The book is also an e-book on the National Korean Studies website: http://koreanseminar.org. Teaching East Asia: Korea was mailed to the following LAUSD administrators: Carlen Powell, Director of Elementary Curriculum, Edwardo Solorzano, Director of Middle School Curriculum, and Patricia Heideman, Director of High School Curriculum. 1. History (25 hours) (Read #12 before you start this section of the homework) 1) What is the significance of the San Pedro Friendship Bell? Answer in one or two sentences (see introductory pages in Teaching East Asia: Korea and p.41) 2) What grade and subject did you teach in the 2018-2019 school year? What grade and subject will you teach during the 2019-2020 school year? 3) View the Pre-Modern Korea Power Point lecture (not the California version) on our website and take some notes to show that you have viewed the lecture. 4) What information from the Pre-Modern Korea lecture is interesting to you? Please write a short paragraph to answer this question. 5) View the Power Point lecture Silla Korea and the Silk Road: Globalization Then and Now on our website. Read the Silk Road lesson information on pages 30-38. Write a short, but specific essay that responds to objectives 3 and 4 on page 30 of Teaching East Asia: Korea. 6) Read the research project lesson on the Silla Dynasty (pp. 39-44). Write a short paragraph OR list what impresses you the most about the creativity of the early Koreans. 7) Read Four Famous Koreans (pp.45-50) and write responses to three of the objectives of the lesson, particularly leadership. 8) Read the three summaries on pages 51 and 52 and explain why each was selected to appear on Korean currency. What do the currencies of Korea and the United States show about cultural differences and similarities between the two cultures? 9) Read the selection, Korea in Global Perspective: The Mongols and Korea. Answer the three questions on page 55. 10) Carefully read pages 67 to page 70 on the Japanese occupation of Korea and then read the essay question and the documents on pages 71-75. List ways in which Koreans resisted Japanese occupation and how the issues of occupation live on to the present day. 11) Read the documents on the Korean War lesson on pages 76-79. Select two documents that give you further insight in understanding the Korean War and its legacy. 12) Google the documentary Nuclear Nightmare: Understanding North Korea (58 minutes). Drawing upon what you learned from the documentary, explain how it helps to understand the complexity of dealing with North Korea today? OR THE FOLLOWING OPTION: If you watch Korea: The Never Ending War during the additional two hours on Wednesday evening, take at least one page of notes. If you complete this option, you do not have to complete history questions 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, or 18. After you watch this film, write how the film provides understanding of the legacy of Japanese occupation, the results of the Korean War, the importance of the relationship between the United States and South Korea, and the challenges of a nuclear North Korea. 15