Here are a few links that we talked about today:

Korean News in English

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/index.asp

http://english.chosun.com/

Korean TV dramas

http://www.hulu.com/search?query=korean+drama&st=1&fs=

Corporate-funded program helps local educators connect with Korean students

Corporate-funded program helps local educators connect with Korean students

Three Cups of Tea Discussion Questions (Ch. 19-22)

Please respond to one of the following discussion questions:

When Greg asked Haji Ali what he should do when he should return to Korphe and find Haji Ali had died (Ch. 19), Haji Ali said, " Listen to the wind." What do you think Haji Ali meant by that statement?

In Ch. 20 Greg says, "The difference between becoming a good local citizen and a terrorist could be an education." Do you agree or disagree? Explain. Do you think this statement applies to citizens in the U.S. as well? Explain.

How is education like water?

In Ch. 21 Greg says that the war on terror "will ultimately be won with books, not bombs." Do you agree or disagree? Explain

How is life like climbing a mountain?

Three Cups of Tea Discussion Questions Chapter 12-18

Please respond to one or more discussion questions.

In Chapter 13, Mortenson said, “I realized that everything, all the difficulties I’d gone through, from the time I’d promised to build the school, through the long struggle to complete it, was nothing compared to the sacrifices he was prepared to make for his people. Here was this illiterate man, who’d hardly left his little village…Yet he was the wisest man I’d ever met.” Why does Mortenson consider Haji Ali to be the “wisest man her ever met”?

What advice does Haji Ali give to Mortenson (Ch. 15) that he incorporates into the Central Asia Institute (CAI) plans for building new schools? Do you think this advice would serve Mortenson well if he were building schools in the United States?

Mortenson (Ch. 16 &17) “also came to know a religious leader in Baltistan, Syed Abbas Risvi, who agreed with him that education was important but pointed out that the children in the area needed something else, too…” What does Mortenson hope Westerners will understand in the example of Syed Abbas?

Much of the book is a meditation on what it means to be a foreigner assimilating with another culture. Discuss your own experiences with foreign cultures-things that you have learned, mistakes you have made, misunderstandings you have endured.

Write the Korean Alphabet

Taliban ready to lift ban on girls' schools

Came across this article today and I thought it connected well with Three Cups of Tea....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/13/taliban-lift-ban-girls-schools

Korean Hangul #2- Alphabet

Here is the next lesson that covers the remaining consonant sounds Suhyun showed us tonight.