Section 5

Read to page 211.

Section 4

1.) Read to page 197
2.) Respond to best outsider prompt from previous post

Outsider Questions

Other groups: post your questions here as a comment.

Section 3

1) Read to page 174
2) Complete all previous sections.
3) In a paragraph, write an evaluation of the book so far. This response can be fairly open-ended.

Section 2b

Consider the Korean tradition of how, historically, "Koreans have mesaured their success in life by their proximity to power- part of a long Asian tradition of striving to get off the farm and close to the imperial palace" (36). What effect could Kim Il'sung's authoritarian system have on such ideology?

2.) Post an HOT question
3.) Respond to all HOT questions, along with above question from 2ac

Section 2a

1) Read to page 159
2) Each group member must choose one of the following (a-f) and submit their work, in formal paragraph form, as a comment to "section 2a"

Group Responsibilities

Jeff K.- Author biography and picture

Jon B.- 3 pictures and captions

Justin G.- 3-2-1 + blog manager

All- H.O.T. question construction, completion, and comment; complete 3-2-1; read to pg. 90, ch. 6

Higher Order Thinking Topic

Good and evil is relative, and it differs from each perspective that a person holds. South Koreans and Americans would typically agree that the North Korean government is "evil" because of the awful things that they have done to their people. Consider an alternative point of view from Kim Jong-Il and Kim Il-Sung's perspectives. Compare and contrast your beliefs with those of Kim Il- Sung's and Kim Jong-Il's. Provide evidence from the text to support your claims.

3-2-1

3- unfamiliar vocabulary words and definitions

2- aspects of North Korea that are related to 1984

1- comment about the reading so far

Barbara Demick

Barbara Demick, having grown up in Ridgewood New Jersey, began reporting international situations while working for the Philadelphia Inquirer as a journalist in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. During a war in Bosnia, she was living in Sarajevo and wrote her first book titled Logavina Street: Life and Death in Sarajevo Neighborhood. She captured the essence of daily life during the war and won the George Polk Award and Robert F. Kennedy award for her reporting.

Working later for the Los Angeles Times, Barbara Demick moved to Seoul, South Korea in 2001. She spent time interviewing North Koreans who had defected from North Korea. Her reporting won her the Overseas Press Club Award, the Asia Society’s Osborne Eliott award, and the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award. She released her second book, Nothing to Envy in 2009. Demick now lives in Beijing China, working as the Los Angeles Times’ bureau chief.

"About Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy." Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. http://nothingtoenvy.com/about-barbara- demick/.