Part I (Before We Begin - Chapter 8)
• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Yoon, David. Frankly In Love. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York, 2019.
• This book is written from the first person point of view, primarily in the present-tense.
• In the section Before We Begin, the narrator Frank Li talks about his two names. One is his American name: Frank Li.
• His other name is Sung-Min Li, and it is his Korean name. Frank's parents and his parents' peers, all Korean immigrants to the U.S., name their children with either 7 or 9 characters.
• Chapter 1, Lake Girlfriend, finds Frank in his senior year of high school.
• Frank and his peers are consumed with practicing for the SAT test that will largely determine which colleges they are accepted into.
• Frank feels a lot of pressure from his parents to get into competitive Ivy-League...
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