Banned Book Club:
Chapter Four: Film Studies
ELA grades 9-12
Introduction:
Students will think about how they get their news as well as what news means to them. Then students will consider how they evaluate a news source as reliable. While reading chapter four, students focus on what characters think they know about the Gwangjo Incident. After reading, students will reflect on how current governments use news sources.
Materials Needed
Banned Book Club
by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada
Table of Contents
CCR
Essential Questions Learning Targets
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Reflection Activity
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Pre- Reading Activity
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Cross- Curricular Activity
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After Reading Activity
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CCR
Essential Questions Learning Targets
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9.4.1.1
ELA CCR
9.4.4.4
9.4.5.5
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Essential Questions
What is the role of news and journalism in a culture?
What is the purpose of a police or military force in a country?
Learning Objectives
I can use the text to support my claim.
I can define a word based on context clues.
I can explain how the author created tension then a joke through the structure of the text.
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Pre- Reading Activity
Pre-Reading Activity
In one paragraph explain what you believe the purpose of a police force or country’s military force is.
In your second paragraph, explain what the role of the news and journalism is.
Read Chapter Four, pages 49-66
After Reading
After Reading Respond to the following questions. Be prepared to share your responses, with evidence, to the class.
How are the police portrayed in this chapter?
How does this portrayal of the police connect to or contradict your quick write about the purpose of police?
How does this chapter show the complexities of the use of news and journalism by a government?
How do you get your news?
How do you know your news source is reliable?
What does “reliable news” mean?
How can a government manipulate the reliability of a country’s news?
After Reading
According to Hyun Sook on page 58, what was the Gwangju Incident?
According to Hoon, pages 58-63, what was the Gwangju Incident?
Find information to confirm one of the character’s information about Gwangju. Who was correct? How do you know the source you used is reliable?
After Reading
Explain the meaning of the quote “As soon as you open your eyes, they find a way to close them again” (63).
Explain how you came to the conclusion that is what the quote means.
This story takes place in 1983 in South Korea. Is the statement “He created such a divide between the people who believe his lies and those who don’t that the country is too torn apart to come together and properly oppose him” (63) relevant to the world you live in today? Explain your answer.
After Reading
What is the joke at the end of the chapter?
Who is the joke on?
How did the author’s manipulate the story to create the joke?
Reflection
What is something you found interesting, informative, or inspiring from today’s learning experience?
Post Assessment
Students will explain in a brief written response, which they share with a small group, what they learned from the chapter or how the chapter gave them a new insight into the world they live in.
Cross- Curricular Activity
Social Studies: Connect the reading to a topic in your social studies curriculum
Geography: Locate the different places in the chapter on a map of South Korea
Art: Create a page of the graphic novel as a response to one of the After Reading questions