https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv All about Linda Sue Park, and her outside life en-us 2016-05-16 16:44:36 UTC 2025-09-26 11:33:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/114233668/709d3cd3d629022d014b610914d57d5c1fe972a0/e95a3273b9e287882b6e894939b47780.jpg mbuck22 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111283900 Linda Sue Park was born on March 25, 1960, and lived outside of Chicago. Her parents are Eung Wan Ed and Susie Kim. Her parents parents came from Korea. She has two kids named Anna and Sean, and her husband is a journalist from iraland  . When Linda was little and through her life she loved to do things many kids her age would love to do: writing, reading, cooking, to travel, doing puzzles,  playing sports, and doing family board games. Over the years Linda Sue Park won many awards and honors, she won: the John Newbery medal for her novel Single Shard and 40 other awards because of her outstanding children books about the history of Korea]]> 2016-05-17 16:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111283900 ehiyabu2 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111285207 2016-05-17 16:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111285207 hcannon1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111287164 2016-05-17 16:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111287164 mgraeber1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111289454 Single Shard : out of 1-4, Single Shard is a 3.  It is a 3 because it is a well developed book that brings the reader into the story. 

Sea Saw Girl : out of 1-4, Seesaw Girl is a 3. It is a 3 because It includes great description and detail that takes the reader to the world of the story.

Kite Fighters : out of a 1-4, kite fighters is a 4. It is 4 because id has great detail and you can picture the story taking place in your mind.

When My Name Was Keoko : out of 1-4, When My Name Was Keoko is a 4.  It is a 4 because Linda Sue Park takes you to the world of a Japanese invasion that changed Sun-Hee and Tae-Yul's life forever 


]]> 2016-05-17 16:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111289454 hcannon1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111290845 2016-05-17 16:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111290845 hcannon1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111293616 Linda Sue Park]]> 2016-05-17 17:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111293616 mbuck22 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111370899 Some fun facts about Linda Sue Park is that when she was in elementary school her teacher told her to stop writing, but Linda dident listen and keep writing, and because of that she became a profeshinal writer when she published her first poem at age 9.]]> 2016-05-18 02:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111370899 mbuck22 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111371520 2016-05-18 02:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111371520 hcannon1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111498968 The book A Single Shard is about a teenage boy named Tree-Ear. Tree-Ear has a dream to be a master potter, the only problem is that Tree-Ear is an orphan and in Korea it is a tradition to teach your son how to be as successful as you. Tree-ear starts working for a master potter named Min with hopes of learning how to throw a pot. When the emissary comes and Min doesn't have a pot, Tree-Ear offers to go on a long and hard journey to show Min that he is worthy to make a pot. While Tree-Ear is traveling he runs into a group of robbers. They smash his vases that he is bringing to the emissary. Tree-Ear finds a single shard from one of the vases that shows the shape and beauty of Min's skill. Tree-Ear succeeds in bringing the shard to the emissary and they approved of Mins work and. When Tree-Ear gets home he is really excited to tell Min the good news, and see his friend. While Tree-Ear is talking to Min and his wife they tell him something that he was not ready to hear. ]]> 2016-05-18 16:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111498968 mgraeber1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111499032 One Text-World connection is that Linda Sue Park includes history in her novels.  A Text-Text connection is that in Kite Fighters the Younger Brothers are respected more and In My Name Was Keoko it shows a little of that respect for the gentlemen in the house.  ]]> 2016-05-18 16:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111499032 ehiyabu2 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111499250 Kite fighters is about two brothers,the younger brother always has to do what the older brother says to do , the older brother has to be treated like a royal from the younger brother ,that was the law in Korea.Young-sup is taking steps to fly kites professionally when he grows up.]]> 2016-05-18 16:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111499250 hcannon1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111499285 When My Name Was Keoko is about a family of 5 living together during the invasion of the Japanese.  The Japanese had its clutches on Korea for a long time.  When My Name Was Keoko states, "A long time ago, when Abuji was a little boy and Uncle just a baby, the Japanese took over Korea. That was 1910. Korea wasn't its own country anymore".  The time in the story was 1945.  Uncle works for the resistance, and the Japanese do not like that he is against their beloved Emperor.  They took medal, rice, food, clothes, everything that is Korean away from their owners so that they can become Japanese and not there Korean selves. Tae-Yul goes to war to "save" Uncle and almost dies as a kamikaze.  Abuji secretly wrote papers for Uncle, Sun-Hee wrote in her diary so she could tell Uncle everything when he got back, even when the Japanese warned her, Omoni hid things that were Korean: a pin with a dragon holding a pearl in its mouth/teeth, and a baby Sharon tree, the tree symbol of Korea.]]> 2016-05-18 16:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111499285 hcannon1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111499349 The book SeeSaw Girl  is about a girl who was trying to follow her dreams to becoming free again. When she worked and worked all day and all night long. SHe tried to become free but she did not make it.  I think that the ending of the book was sad because I thought that she was going to get over the wall.]]> 2016-05-18 16:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111499349 mbuck22 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111500861 Three techniques Park uses as she writes are description, symbolism. She uses symbolism in the book ''SeeSaw girl''. As she writes she states ]]> 2016-05-18 16:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111500861 mgraeber1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111507112 2016-05-18 17:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111507112 mgraeber1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111892434 2016-05-20 16:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111892434 mgraeber1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111892572 2016-05-20 16:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111892572 mgraeber1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111894770 2016-05-20 16:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111894770 mgraeber1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111895014 2016-05-20 16:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111895014 josorio3 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111898064 Linda did a charity for water for South Sudan.  This charity helps give the families of South Sudan clean water to drink.  Before they had dirty, muddy water, and when they drank it, it got them sick or gave them a disease.]]> 2016-05-20 16:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111898064 mgraeber1 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111898933 Linda Sue Park includes common trends in all her books, even though she writes about a totally different topic.  All of her novels include a symbol. Kite Fighters states, "How about a Chinese picture word painted in gold? You could write 'Royal dragon' or something like that".  According to Seesaw Girl ,  "The house was built like a U around the Inner Court.  The women lived in one part .  The men's room's were at the front".  When My Name Was Keoko describes, "It was her favorite because the dragon had a little pearl ball in its claw".  Single Shard includes, "The robber pulled and jerked; Crane-man's solid straw work held".  All of these quotes include a symbol that helps us understand the story a lot more and unlocks some secrets of the books. ]]> 2016-05-20 17:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111898933 josorio3 https://padlet.com/mbuck22/qjok78nrs6wv/wish/111904386 1)Girls couldn't go outside of their houses
2)The younger brothers had to treat the older brother like royalty
3)The orphans were thought less of because they didn't have a family 
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