Promotion Ideas for A Single Shard
This book is a teacher's dream for a class unit of study as it contains a wealth of possible themes, issues, and cross curricular connections. Potential topics include homelessness, poverty, making mistakes, the value of hard work, loyalty, determination, respectfulness, and cultural diversity.
Ideas to incorporate in the book study:
- A field trip to visit homeless shelters in your area, as part of a 21st Century Accountability unit that would be comprised of 3 parts:
-Students made book trailers like the ones that can be found at the links below would be a fun way for students to gain experience in the areas of identifying/organizing main ideas from the book, creating a script, summarizing, and working with a small group to complete a project.
- A book talk would be a wonderful way to delve into the plot itself, with discussions that include such literary elements as: theme, stages of plot, figurative language, characterization, etc. In addition, the talk could include homelessness and poverty, subjects that are, unfortunately, not unknown conditions for some students.
Below you will find buttons containing links to information, activities, and tools that you may find useful as you read and study A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park.
Ideas to incorporate in the book study:
- A field trip to visit homeless shelters in your area, as part of a 21st Century Accountability unit that would be comprised of 3 parts:
- Raising awareness of the local homeless situation by touring the shelters,
- Practicing 21st Century Employability Skills by working in teams to produce quilts for donation to the homeless,
- Utilizing newly acquired sewing skills to reuse and recycle fabric by designing and creating the quilts to give away.
-Students made book trailers like the ones that can be found at the links below would be a fun way for students to gain experience in the areas of identifying/organizing main ideas from the book, creating a script, summarizing, and working with a small group to complete a project.
- A book talk would be a wonderful way to delve into the plot itself, with discussions that include such literary elements as: theme, stages of plot, figurative language, characterization, etc. In addition, the talk could include homelessness and poverty, subjects that are, unfortunately, not unknown conditions for some students.
Below you will find buttons containing links to information, activities, and tools that you may find useful as you read and study A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park.
If you need help with some of the characters' Korean names, listen to this audio recording of pronunciations by the author, Linda Sue Park.
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Here are links to examples of student-made book trailers for the book A Single Shard.
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Here is a three-part series of videos that show the modern process of making pottery from throwing to firing. Throughout the videos, the potter compares modern techniques and equipment to that of 13th century Korea.
Photo by Jeon Han