Iris' presentation

1. When My Name Was
Keoko
Written by Linda Sue Parks
Presented by Iris Sherron

2. What the story is about
When My Name was Keoko is about a Korean family who is forced to
change their way of life.
During World War II, Japan occupied Korea. All Koreans were forced to
become “Japanese”. Even their names were changed.
The two main characters switch off narrating the story. Their uncle gets
into trouble with the Japanese and is forced to go into hiding. While their
uncle is hiding, the Tae-yul starts working for the Japanese military. He is
stationed in Japan. After his training, the Japanese surrender to the U.S.
With the Japanese surrender, Sun-hee and her family return to their
Korean lives.

3. Maps of Japan and Korea
Japan Korea

4. Main Characters
Sun-hee or Keoko is a very smart Korean girl, who switches back and
forth narrating the story with her brother. She has excelled in learning
kanji.
Tae-yul or Nobou, is Sun-hee’s brother. He is interested in air planes.
Aubji is their father and is the vice-principal of Sun-hee and Tae-yul’s
Japanese school.
Omoni is their mother and does not know to much Japanese.
Uncle owns a print shop. He is responsible for printing the Japanese
newspaper.

5. Settings
Their home
The print shop
Their school
Japanese training camp

6. Leaflets
American airplanes flew over
Korea and dropped leaflets. The
leaflets were written in Korean
and said not to worry, the
Americans were not going to
bomb Korea.

7. Interesting scene from story
The whole family was listening to the Olympics on the
radio. The radio announcer said the athlete was from
Japan.
Uncle gets very upset about it, but Sun-hee does not
understand. Tae-yul explained that the radio announcer
did not tell anyone that the athlete was actually Korean.
The athlete was wearing the Japanese flag and had a
Japanese name, so the country of Korean did not have
any publicity.

8. Citation
http://survivalfarm.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/rose-of-sharon.jpg
Page 1, picture of rose of Sharon
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F
%2Fwww.tokyotimes.com%2Fwhere-to-see-japans-2013-cherry-blossoms%2F&ei=hQlgVITABoqeyAS474G4BA&bvm=bv.
79189006,d.aWw&psig=AFQjCNGMg0fe3plyK1CMuQrY3HrI-osEGg&ust=141566643316
Page 1, picture of cherry blossom
http://bizlocallistings.com/junytd/map-of-east-asia-during-world-war-2
Page 3, map of Japan
http://www.ww2roundtable-rochester.org/gallery/escaping-an-ambush-in-korea_24.php
Page 3, map of Korea
theguardin.com
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Baker-Haigh-Nimocks-House-Heritage-Square-Fayetteville-NC.JP
Page 5, picture of home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_leaflet_propaganda
Page 6, leaflet
theguardin.com
Page 7, pictures of flags