Lesson 1: Building Background Knowledge: Korea

Today you will

• Preview the anchor text, A Single Shard, and engage in a Jigsaw Reading to explore Korean history, culture, and geography to contextualize the setting of the novel.

• Summarize and explain Korea’s historical context by using general academic nouns (such as tradition, community, and identity), incorporating connecting and transitional language (e.g., because, for example, as a result), and applying time and place prepositional phrases (such as “in Korea,” “during the Goryeo period,” and “on the Korean peninsula”) while sharing your jigsaw learning.