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Day 1:2008 to How Do We Fall in Love - Pages 1-56

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: See, Lisa. The Island of Sea Women. Scribner, 2019. Hardcover.

• In “Day 1: 2008, Young-sook is an old woman sorting algae as she sits on a cushion on the beach.

• She lives on the island of Jeju, which is off the coast of South Korea.

• Other women in their 80s and 90s are also picking and sorting algae on the beach and collecting that which is salable.

• A tourist family with a white man, Korean woman, and mixed-blood children approaches Young-sook and confirms her name.

• She introduces her husband Jim and her children Clara and Scott.

• She is looking for her grandmother, Mi-ja.

• She shows Young-sook a photograph of her grandmother in a bathing costume.

• Then she shows her a picture of her grandmother’s wedding with...

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