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Genre: Young Adult Fiction

Number Of Pages: 192

Year Of Publication: 2002

My book club book was, When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park. The book was published in 2002, so the book is only 17 years old. There are 192 pages of the story. This book is about how a Korean family has to live through all the hardships of when the Japanese took over Korea. In the book it switches between years and two siblings, Sun-hee and Tae-yul. It shows how far a family will go to help one another. I encourage you to read this book if you like people’s history of what happened to them in a tragedy. I also encourage you to read this book if you like two different points of view on the same thing. I rate this book 4 1/2 stars out of 5 stars.

The book club unit was really fun because I love reading books and then talking about them with people. I don’t really like to write about it though. I really liked book club over all. Reading went well. I made sure I ready everything on time. I would change writing about our discussions. We should all ask our questions to each other to see if they read the book. If they don’t answer correctly then they didn’t read the section. No projects after reading, makes us not want to finish reading the book.

In today’s Book Club we had to finish our book. My two open ended questions are, “Why did they not execute Tae-yul?” and  “After the war why did it take so long for Tae-yul to get home?” The highlight from our book was when Tae-yul came home and told his family what happened when he went to the army. Pg.180. My summary of the book is this. When the Japanese took over Korea, all the Koreans had to try to become Japanese. When Sun-hee and Tae-yul were born they when Japanese were in control. They have to struggle with the war. When Uncle becomes a rebel he has to leave. Tae-yul joins the army so he doesn’t have to lure him out. At the end Tae-yul returns from prison.

The question that helped my book club group have a long and thoughtful discussion was, “Why did Tae-yul not try to fail in the army?” I wasn’t surprised at the questions everyone asked. We all had similar questions. I wondered why Tae-yul didn’t try to fail in the army. I feel like we can improve our meetings by having everyone here. My two open ended questions were, “Why did Tae-yul not try to fail in the army?” and “Why did Tae-yul volunteer for the army?”

Hi! My name is Tori S. I am also known as T-Shock. My book club book is called                            “When My Name Was Keoko.” My group members are Medha, Kavya, and Mara. My first sticky note is about how I wondered if Sun-hee is a girl because she isn’t allowed to listen to men talk. My
second sticky note was about did Tomo warn Sun-hee about her Uncle too? In the beginning of the book, Sun-hee and Tae-yul show different interests, Tae-yul love building things and Sun-hee loves writing kanji. Near the end of the the first part it seems like something big is going to happen.

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