Chart of Korea and U.S

Korea
1. I never saw man cook or enter the kitchen in Korea
2. I did not have much money in Korea
3. I had to respect the elder all the time
4. I did babysitting for free
5. I never saw people kiss at the public place

U.S
1. I see professor cooks for his family
2. I see Ellen can buy the things she wants
3. I can talk to elder normally
4. I get pay from babysitting my professor's children
5. I see people kiss each other.

Similar and Difference between Sookan and me

 When I was in fifth grade, I came to United State by to month. At first I wanted to travel to America, but I had school vacation, so I could stay more in America. Therefore I was staying two month for my English provement and my English skills. I went American private school with my Korean friends. However Sookan did not have friends to go to America. She went America by herself and she tried to make new experience in America. I was in Los Angeles near by Korean town. Actually when I was fifth grade, I did not nervous to came to America. I had many friends and I knew them. Also I was just staying two month. As well as Sookan was very nervous to came to America at first, because  she was alone and no one can support her very strongly. Also she did not good at spoke English a lot. She worried a lot, because of her English skills also she worried about communication with her new American friends and many different teachers.
 However when I was eighth grade I had to be ready. Before I came to Cheshire Academy, I was studying in Korean public middle school. I had many different friends in Korea and we always had fun together everyday. Sookan also had many friends in Korea, but I think they could not have fun. Because that year was 1954 right after Korean War, so many people died and they were all poor. Also they were busy to earn much money. However my parents had enough money to support me to study in America, so I decided to go to America in eighth grade. I had great supporter to study in America, but Sookan could not get good supporter. Because their families were poor, and they had no much money to gave Sookan. I was really lucky and Sookan was unlucky. When I came to America in eighth grade, I was alone like Sookan. I was little nervous too, because I did not know anybody who were in America and I need to all by myself like Sookan. However before school start, there were summer program, so I decided to go summer program. I felt I could make many different friends and became best friends. My choice was right, and from now we became best friends each other. Sookan was nervous to came to America at first, and also I was nervous even I went to America once. However we became better and better, so we made many friends too.

Gathering of pearls questions

1.   How does Sookan feels her new friend Marci?
2.   How do Sookan and her roommate Ellen relationship become?
3.   After Sookan got her mom's letter how she feels like?
4.   What is background of Sookan's family?
5.   What is Sookan's purpose, before she is going back to Korea?

About Author Sook Nyul Choi

Sook Nyul Choi/ She is Korean American storybook's author. She wrote many different Korean American storybooks. I thought she was from South Korea, but she was born in Pyongyang,  North Korea and she came to South Korea during Korean war. She was born  in 1937. After she came to South Korea, she wanted to study more about students' education. She tried hard and finally in 1962 she became a school teacher in Manhattanville College in New York. As well as she came to America she also teach many students, but she wanted to write her own books. She started to write many experience for her books. Her books were all write by English and include with America, but many people could feel traditional Korean stories, because Korea was very poor and had many big worst problem by many countries. She also include this happened in her books, so most of people felt sad about this happened.

Best Ability Of Life

Minseung Kim
10/13/2015
Ms. Guarino
English II (IS) - 2

Best Ability Of Life

     When I was in kindergarten, my mom made I read many different books for my future knowledges. I did not know about anything that read many books and knew knowledges for my future. Actually I loved to read many different books. I read many different Korean books, when I did not know English. I learned English when I was in primary school. After I learn English I also loved to read many English novels. If I read many different books, there were many lessons that always tried to teach us. When I was young, I was very interesting about many different lessons to learn many different community knowledges. This was my dream that write my own lesson to many different people and they could learn my lesson from my books. I thought this could be my best ability of my life.
     My mom told me, if I want to know many different knowledge, I need to read many different articles or read many different books. When I was young, I could understand books very easily, because books were very easy for young children and they show great organized for many people. However now if I read many books, there were all difficult and hard to understand book story. If I could not understand story one time, I tried to read again from the beginning. It was hard to read again and hard to organized understand stories, but I really wanted to understand all of books' stories. I think I prefer to read many books for my knowledges and read can makes me creativity for everything. Also read makes me focus something a lot. This makes me very helpful that when I study big tests or doing big projects. If I can focus easily, I can also get good grade in all of important tests or projects. It helps everything.
     I prefer to read graphic novels a lot, because it is easy to understand many different story. Also in English class we read many different graphic novels. We read 'Persepolis' and 'Absolutely True Diary'. My favorite book is 'Absolutely True Diary', because this story give many life lesson to me. I could understand many different happen to main character. For example one of turning points were make main character's life different. I loved to read many different life lesson's from many different books, but 'Absolutely True Diary' was story about teach special life lessons. Sometime graphic novels were hard to understand, but most of graphic novels show great organization for many people. Therefore it become we can understand very easier than just general novels. General novels are can be boring than graphic novel, but in general novels we can imagine many different things from story.
     From Cheshire Academy or many schools need to write many essay. I tried to write many different format of essay, but I always got mistake and always got bad grade. However I always tried to improve my own writing skills from many teachers. It is very hard to think about topic of essay and hard to write something creativity. After I wrote essay, most of big problems were grammar mistakes. I always think about grammar mistake in every essay, but I could not find my problem very specifically. I will keep work on my writing skills and improve my writing essay grade. I always tried to want to get good grade for my college and for my future. I will practice writing and I will make perfect.
     Always love to read many different books, and always write many different essay, but I got bad grade. However this two skills are best ability for our life. I can know better community and better knowledge. In our life, there are no easy way to become perfect. However most of people just want to get perfect from everything. That could be possible sometimes, but not always possible. That's why most of people practice everything very hard, and try to become better. I will keep read many different books and write many different essay. My reading and writing skills are going to improve more than now!