Friday, October 30, 2015

Five different between America and Korea


Korea
Sookan recomanded that men in Korea never did housework
Sookan never got paid for baby sitting
Sookan met her sister every month 
Sookan spoke Korean 
Sookan was more respectful to the elder people in Korean, and used more respectful language

America
Sookan sees Professor Benatte doing housework for his family
Sookan gets paid for doing baby sitting
Sookan uses letters to communicate with her sister
Sookan speaks English 
Sookan finds people are equal in America, she doesn't need to use as much respectful language when she speaks to elder people. 

Thursday, October 29, 2015

In class writing Oct 29


        When I first arrived America, not like Sookan, I was with my parents. I was really nervous on the plane, I didn't know what will my life be in America. How will my study career be like in America. I afraid I couldn't make friends America. I afraid I will be lonely in America. After I arrived America in the airport, we met the driver who will drive us to Cheshire academy. He was a man will suit, looks nice, kind and polite. He made me feel the people in America will be nice and friendly, he talked a lot with us in the car, he introduced America to me, he gave me a good impression in America. Same as Sookan, I met a teacher when I was first arrived, I remembers she is Mrs. Dykemen. She brought me to the community office to got my room key, she was nice to me and made me feel less nervous. I went to the orientation in our school, during the orientation I made some friends, I felt like I was much more lucky than Sookan That I went to orientation. In the "Gathering Pearl" Sookan felt hard for her study and also busy in the school, I had the same feeling since I had biology in my freshmen year. There were so many unknown vocabularies in biology that I needed to remember them all to get a good grade. I always needed to spend a lot of time on my  biology lab reports, I felt hard but I should insist. I didn't want my parents to disappoint at me. Which I think is similar with Sookan. This is what my experience looks like when I first arrived America, there were something that is similar with Sookan, but there are also many things were different from Sookan's experience.  

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Discuss questions- GP chapter 3 and chapter 4

1. Why Marci didn't have friend, and lonely ?
2. Why did Sookan feel sorry to Marci?
3. Did Sookan like her job?
4. What did Sookan's mom talk about in the letter?
5. What did Sookan feel after she read the letter?
6. Is Sookan's school life busy or not? Why or why not?

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Somethings about Sook Nyul Choi

        Sook Nyul Choi is a Korean America author. She was born in Pyongyang. When she was a child, the Korean War occurred in Korean at that time, she went to South Korea first, and than came to America for a better education. After she graduated, she became a teacher, later she move to Massachusetts and became a writer. She was an famous writer on writing children's story books. But her books are always useful for some middle schools and high schools students. Some high schools and middle schools use her books on class and students will ask to learn about the book. The books she wrote are mostly about her childhood as a refugee. People can know the history at that time by reading her book, also in college political science classes will use her book as literature.  Her books got a lot of awards for her. Her books also had been translated to many others languages, such as Korean, ltaly and Japanese. She is a mother for two daughters

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

My Reading and Writing Career

                                                    My Reading and Writing Career
       Since I studies English from my primary school, I had already studied English for a long time. When I was studying English in my primary school, the thing I spend the most time on was reading. At that time, I studied English by reading English articles. Also, when was learning Chinese, I need to read a lot of different kind of articles. When we finished reading, teacher would let us write the things we read before. When I was in 5 grades, I didn’t like reading, because the thing related to reading is only study. I can tell that most of the people don't like to study when they are children. Same as me, when I was a child the only thing I wanted to do was to play with my friends and watched TV.
        As my age grew up, I started reading novel. I love reading fiction novel, sometime I could read a novel until 4 or 5am in the morning. My mom was happy to see I started love to read, but also she was worried about me didn’t have enough time to sleep. I felt like reading was one of my hobbies in my life. Before, I thought reading was boring, and hard, but now I like it and it is interesting. I like to read novel most, especially fiction novel. Because many things that are impossible to happen in our real life are all able to happen in the fiction novel. When I was reading a fiction novel, I always feel relax.
        Few week ago, in my English class, I started read a book name Persepolis. It was a new type of book that I never read before. It was a graphic novel, it looks like a comic but the story in a graphic novel is usually longer and more meaningful. When I read “Persepolis”, not like other English book, I would like to keep reading it somehow. The book I read in my English class before all had a lot of words in it, I usually felt tired when I read them. And I need to spend a long time to read one chapter. But “Persepolis” is easier for me to read, it is also my favorite English book that I have read in English for class. My favorite book I ever read in my life is a Chinese fiction novel called “The Extra Fourteenth”, it is a horror novel, and I had read this book for 3 times, every time I read I could find something new from the book. That is also one of the reasons why I like this book.
       For my writing career, I spend a lot of time on writing essay when I was in primary and middle school. I was hard to write a long essay before, but as I wrote more, my writing become well. But when I writing a English essay, I usually easy to make many grammar mistakes. I think I need more practice to improve my English writing skills. But I my free time, I am not a fans on writing, I don’t write a lot. But don’t worry; I will always finish my writing assignment on time, haha.
        My reading and writing career is almost as long as my life, even though these two things are not the things I love most, but they are already become parts of my life. Also, it is important to know how to read and how to read in your life. Reading can help you know about what is happening in the world, writing help you to community with others. I will keep reading and writing in my life, my career will never end in my life. Although I don’t like them all, they are important to me. They had already become part of my life.