Against+the+Discrimination+in+South+Korea

By Eunkyoung Kwon(eunkyoung.kwon@wmich.edu)

"All of these are the same skin colors" One of the Korean public advertisements (@http://www.kobaco.co.kr)

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=Overview:=

The reason why I chose this sensitive topic...started from this article. Korean Baseball Star Catches Heat Following Racist Remarks Towards American Pitcher

When I read this article, I feel so upset, and I couldn't understand the racist baseball player. In this article, you can see the citation from ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Ryan Sadowski‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍: "**//Sixty years ago, Korea was a homogeneous society that has advanced faster than any other place in//** **//the world in history.//** **//It has taken Americans nearly 300 years to reach a level of racial equality//**"  (Jeff Liebsch, 2013).

There are lots of good people over the world, they hate the racism. But, there are some racists everywhere... Sadly, South Korea also has those kinds of people. As Mr. Sadowski said, Korea was a homogeneous society. Now there are lots of foreigners in S.Korea, some of them got married with Koreans, and they are living in there. We call these people as a "Multicultural family". Here are charts about multicultural families are living in S.Korea. You can see how many they live, and which countries they are from.

media type="custom" key="23374658"media type="custom" key="23374660" The foreigners who live in Korea are constantly increasing these days. Most of them are from Asian countries. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Unfortunately, some Koreans don't want to accept a multicultural society.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Here is a video which explains the multicultural situations in S.Korea.

media type="youtube" key="SCLLdhHlZvE" width="560" height="315" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">As you can see the video, some people don’t like foreigners are living in Korea. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Like these adults, some students (especially middle school students) are similar to them. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Children who were born in multicultural family use to be bullied by some students. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">The main bullying reason is “their appearances (e.g. faces, skin colors..) look slightly different than other Koreans”. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Korean government is trying to support the family and the children. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">They are trying to support the families as financial, educational ways. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">But many multicultural families live in rural areas, and most of the helpers are volunteers and social workers. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Shortages of professional staff are very severe in some places. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Emotional supports and education for the diversity still needed to them. =*Grades=

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Students will be 7-9 grades. High school students can recognize about the discrimination, but middle school student's don't notice that their actions and thinking can be a kind of discrimination. So I focused on the middle school students. =====

=* Learning Objectives:=

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Students will understand multicultural families’ feelings as reading, writing, and playing roles.
=* List of the most important Common Core Standards that this unit will address:=

Reading Standards

 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7-2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7-3. Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events). ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7-7. Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words). ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7-9. . Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">a. Use their experience and their knowledge of language and logic, as well as culture, to think analytically, address problems creatively, and advocate persuasively ====== ||
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8-2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8-3. Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories). ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8-7. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8-9. Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">a. Use their experience and their knowledge of language and logic, as well as culture, to think analytically, address problems creatively, and advocate persuasively. ====== ||
 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">9-7. Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account. ====== ||

Writing Standards

 * ======<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">a. Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">c. Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.) ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">5. With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 7 on page 66.) ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. ======

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">8-11. Interpret, analyze, and evaluate narratives, poetry, and drama, artistically and ethically by making connections to: other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, eras, personal events, and situations. ======

|| <By New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy> =* Writing Assignments= <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Interview with people who are related to the multicultural family -> Make it as video or write as a paperwork <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Mindmapping <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Writing discussions on webpage <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Writing a letter/suggestion to relevant people <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Writing a plot and making videos using Youtube, Imovie, and so on

=* Unit Plan=

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"><Week 1 : Introduction week>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Kinds of Warming-up stages, students will be explore what they will learn for 6 weeks.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Monday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduce what we will do for 6 weeks briefly
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Ask questions about Multicultural family (measuring in advance how they know)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Mind-mapping about the topic
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Share it with classmates (presentation individually or pair)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Tuesday
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> : Googledocx, blogs, and so on.. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> - [] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> For reference, TED conversations pages are like this: []
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Organize groups for activities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduce and explain about technological writing tools
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Reading 1 : Multicultural Children Still Face Discrimination
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Each group will decide what they will use technological writing tools
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make webpage notes for discussion (might be googledocx, TED conversations, and blogs)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">media type="custom" key="23377576"media type="custom" key="23377580" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">TED conversations can set limited time, so students should do their work within the time. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">They can practice to punctuate deadline, can raise the responsibility and cooperation (team work)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Post group discussions

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Wednesday
media type="youtube" key="4ERSgAnJVwY" width="560" height="315" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> - []
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Watch the video : Discrimination Rising Against Multicultural Families: Survey
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Reading 2 : Korea to support multicultural children
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find the main ideas and discuss opinions with classmates
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write it on group discussion pages

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Thursday
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> - [] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Multiculturalism Through a New Eye: Amber Min at TEDxYouth@Seoul 2011 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">media type="youtube" key="qcT8njwn06w" width="560" height="315" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Teacher will explain the contents roughly (for exact understanding) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> : What is the main idea? How do you think about the opinions?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Reading 3: Stop labeling migrants multicultural
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find the main idea and discuss with classmates
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write it on group discussion pages
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Watch the video
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Discussion with group
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write it on group discussion pages

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Friday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Review what we learned
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Combine what we read and watched : individual writing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Share the thinking and do self-assessment of this week

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"><Week 2 : Interview week>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview can be one of effective ways to practice writing papers. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">For example : Multicultural Interviewing: AUAP

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Monday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduce ways of interview
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Choose the interviewee: multicultural students, their family (need to get permission in advance), related administrators, and social workers
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduce how to gather documents about multicultural family
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Explain what students should focus on

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tuesday
<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">- Use internet to add more information <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">- Discuss and prepare how they contact the people, when/where they will meet, the questions what they will ask
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make a plan (1) (30 min)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Arrange and summarize them (15~20 min)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Mini lesson : Groups will present what they found and prepared

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wednesday
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> -start contact interviewee to make an appointment
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make a plan (2) (30 min)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Arrange and summarize them (15~20 min)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Mini lesson : Groups will discuss the question is appropriate or not

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Thursday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Finalize the interview plans
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Evaluate plans with peers and teacher

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Friday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview with people (If students need, they can go outside with other adults)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Interview the people
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make interview papers or videos (paper and post it on webpage)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"><Week 3: Discussion week>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Students will explore the topic in detail, will broaden their outlook

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Monday
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduce the activity what students will: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">e.g: Multiculturalism in Canada <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> media type="youtube" key="PZytZWw7ByM" width="560" height="315"
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find similar examples how to cope with the discrimination problems in other countries
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Find opinions and solutions what the countries did

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tuesday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Search for data (via internet, books...)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Discuss and decide what they will choose

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wednesday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Presentation about each group found
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Choose one of them to discuss with
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Discussion in each group

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Thursday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write a suggestion/a letter to administrators: individually or group
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Peer review

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Friday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Presenation the pa pers

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"><Week 4 : Finding solutions week>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">In my personal experience, I heard about the multicultural family situation from my younger brother, and one of my friends.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">My younger brother said to me, "When I was in 8th grade of middle school, there was a student who came from North Korea. He was a kind of multicultural student, but my classmates didn't get along with him. He also didn't know the way how to make friends. He was always alone. One day he moved to other school. Teacher didn't explain the reason, and classmates didn't know either. If I know how to cope with the situation, then did he move other school?"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">One of my friend told to me, "I participated in mentoring program with multicultural students. My student, she was a shy girl but had no passion with studying. I tried to encourage her, motivated her a lot. But she didn't show any reactions. She always wanted to play instead of studying. It made me frustrated. Her family was financially supported by government, a social worker visited her house once a week, and I helped her study...But I don't know why she had no ambition(passion)...Still I can't understand and don't know how to cope with the similar situations." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">These stories made me organize "finding solutions week".

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Monday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Review the articles and interviews
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Evaluate each group
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Students will make comments what they learned and felt

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tuesday
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Bias about the multicultural family <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">2. Bullying about multicultural students in schools <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">3. Drop in schools <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">4. Other suggestion that students found
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduce the problems:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Choose a topic each group wants

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wednesday
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> (Repeat it until student will come back to their original group.)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Discuss with the topic in the group
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Rotate a person in a group to other group, and explain other classmates(groups) what they discussed.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write and post the contents on webpage

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Thursday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Summarize the discussion
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Post discussion on webpage
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Evaluation each group

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Friday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Presentation: suggest the solutions that students found

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"><Week 5 : a role-playing activity week>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Role-playing can be intergrated several materials: students need to write a plot, make a plan, take a video, and cooperate together. Using video will make the students adjust to technological tools.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Monday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduce a role-playing activity
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Introduce the ways students can use: Youtube, Xtranormal, Imovie, or make a plot and play a role directly
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Group discussion (1) : topics, how to make a plot, how to gather data, who will charge in certain roles, etc.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tuesday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Group discussion (2) writing a plot

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wednesday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">finalize the plan and start to practice

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Thursday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make a group video or practice a playing (1)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Friday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make a group video or practice a playing (2)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"><Week 6 : Finishing & Sharing the ideas>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">To summarize the whole activities and present what they learned.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Monday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write a paper (on the webpage) what they learned during 6 weeks (1)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tuesday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Write a paper (on the webpage) what they learned during 6 weeks (2)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wednesday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Group presentation (1) : about role-playing project

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Thursday

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Group Presentation (2)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Friday
= = = = =<Resources>= Articles 1. Liebsch. J. (2013), //<span style="font-family: 굴림;">Korean Baseball Star Catches Heat Following Racist Remarks Towards American Pitcher // Retrieved from http://busanhaps.com/article/korean-baseball-star-racist-remarks 2, Multicultural Children Still Face Discrimination - [] 3.Korea to support multicultural children - [] 4.Stop labeling migrants multicultural - []
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Group Presentation (3) & self-evaluation
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Suggest improvements for the future class

Videos 1. Multiculturalism Through a New Eye: Amber Min at TEDxYouth@Seoul 2011 2. Multicultural Interviewing: AUAP 3. Discrimination Rising Against Multicultural Families: Survey 4. Multiculturalism in Canada