I would agree that some of these are very long and there is no necessity to kill that many trees between all of us printing all these documents.
However, you can also rotate the document by clicking on VIEW

After the presentation on Korea I started to really think about how little I know about Korea. The presentation was great, I really liked the beginning of the presentation with 10 (or 11) things you need to know about Korea. I thought that was really interesting, and got rid of many of the stereotypical knowledge that I had previously about both North and South Korea.

One thing that really surprised me about the presentation was the long list of leaders in Korean history. Our textbooks for an advanced class cover Korean history back to both the Kogoryo and Koryo Empires and barely mention the Silla. There are many references to Shamanism, and then basically the text implies that the Chinese take over from there influencing religion, culture, and government. Apparently that is not the case!!?? I wonder how much of this concept is about the "victors" writing history. No way can a world history course cover this much detail in a year for each empire, nor could the testing reflect all this detail. I think that would be far beyond reason, but it was an eye opener to the fact that there is so much history that goes untaught.

I agree with the others that this past Monday's lecture was extremely informative on Korea by our guest lecturer. Prior to Monday's class, most of my knowledge on Korea was that of North Korea and the rigid government. I remember in my AP high school class, we focused focused more on N. Korea and just slightly on South Korea. We did not touch on culture, history, people, geography, etc. whatsoever. This lecture brought some really great facts to light, and I hope I can successfully and creatively incorporate aspects of Korea into my overall lesson plans for the course.

I was impress with the story of the founding of Korea. I kept thinking about Rome's founding story. Is fascinating how many of these stories involved human and animals. In the Korea's story the bear and the tiger, in Rome's story a set of twins Remus ans Romulus are rescued and raise by a she-wolf.

I think the legend has its roots in ancient totemic beliefs. Many cultures have animals as cultural heroes(who teach them how to do something or how to cultivate a crop their livelihood depends on),and many creation myths have animals as mythical ancestors.The Koreans chose the tiger and the bear two strong animals they feared and revered the most.
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There is so much wonderful information this class is teaching me. The good the bad and the ugly is just one example of the many things I enjoyed reading. Each ruler wanted to be known for doing a certain thing. But in the end all three were need to unify the country.

I actually enjoyed the Kiltong Tale very much and while reading I was reminded how much the imaginative disguises and trickery and impossibly won battles were so similar to Chinese Ninja stories...I began to recall the special effects from the famous Ang Lee movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
I know 7th grade students would enjoy hearing this Korean Tale and I would read it to them over a month perhaps and have them keep an illustration journal, where after each reading they would create a drawing form the tale. Perhaps even some of the students could create a Manga Style Cartoon Book of the Kiltong Tale.