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Common Core Standards Kindergarten – Grade 3
1. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer key details in a text.
2. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.3 with prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and
major events in the story.
3. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details and demonstrate
understanding of their central message or lesson.
4. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations to demonstrate
understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
5. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or
events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Pre-Reading Suggestion
Visit www.korea.net (About Korea) for information on Korea and photographs
Objectives:
1. Students will write a story summary describing key events and understandings.
2. Students will demonstrate understanding of the story’s message by writing and acting out a short
play taken from one section of the book.
3. Students will complete a story map of essential elements character, setting,
problem, and solution.
4. Students will describe the artwork used in this book.
Possible questions to ask after the reading:
1. What do you learn about the geography of Korea from reading the story, viewing the beautiful
illustrations and photographs from the Internet?
2. How did Korea protect itself from a possible invasion by enemies?
3. Why was Sang-hee suddenly responsible for protecting the village?
Why was his village so important to Korea?
4. Why might Sang-hee wish to see the king’s soldiers?
5. What were the challenges of lighting the bonfire?
6. The book considers personal wants against the greater good. What does this mean?
How does it relate to the story?
7. When did this story take place?
8. How does the artwork create interest in the story?
Extensions:
1. Describe a time when you had to choose between your wants and those of your family or
community. How did you feel? What helped you make your decision? What would you advise
a friend in the same situation?
2. Retell the story using a different ending. What are the consequences? How does the character’s
feelings change? How does the story end?
3. Choose one illustration in the book. Describe in detail everything you see on the page.
Is the information included in the text? How does it enhance or detract from the story.
What would you add to the picture or take away?
4. Would this story be the same without illustrations? Would it have the same impact on the reader?
What do you think and why?
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