Seedfolks by paul fleischman 1997 synopsis, discussion. They plant baby lettuce, but something happens to it. Yep, this book takes place within one year, and it all starts on a super cold april. This person wanted to make her father proud of her patience and hard work. Was a pregnant 16 year old who soon learned that she was a part of nature.
Plants are just things that grow out of the ground. I was nine years old and still hoped that perhaps his. In the book, there is a lot where one girl, named kim, decides to plant lima beans. Narrator plants family origin personal information plot. Then i leave korea with my husband to come to america, for work. Seedfolks 9 curtis by paul fleischman curtis deltoidsawesome. Sae young loves listening to all the conversations in the garden. Its about a group of people in a small community who dont really interact, until a girl plants a bean. Scholastic, new york, 1999 first published harpercollins 1997. Seedfolks 8 sae young by paul fleischman saeyoung a lways many people in my house when i was young. Sae young, who grew up in korea, had trouble conceiving a child with her husband. Those lima beans basically became the inspiration for the garden.
Seedfolks by paul fleishman free voluntary reading for ells. It can also serve as a template for a student activity. In gonzalos chapter gonzalo says he had a nice garden going, so he does. The book was listed as an ala best book for young adults, a school library journal best book, and a publishers weekly best book. Examples of stereotypes in seedfolks 834 words bartleby. As a class, read or listen to the npr backseat book club featuring seedfolks. They never had children, and he died at only 37 years old. What did the character sea yong from the book seedfolks. Wasting not a single word, fleischman unfolds a story of a blighted neighborhood transformed when a young girl plants a few lima beans in an abandoned lot. Sae young, a middle aged korean woman, plants peppers like the ones she had grown in korea. In the book, seedfolks, how does the garden change sae young. Many characters went to the garden to grow their own foods and chat. We tricked carole baskin into giving us her first interview since tiger king duration.
Why did sae young select hot peppers to grow in her small garden plot. You might think that now but once you read seedfolks by paul fleischman, you will find out that you are very wrong. A vacant lot, ratinfested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Myles, maricela, amir, asked in books and literature who is sae young from the book seedfolks. Oh, and then she got robbed and beat up in the dry cleaning shop she own.
Wendell goes across the street and waters the plants and by doing so is inspired to plants something of his own in the vacant lot. Ana, an elderly romanian woman, sees kim from her window and assumes the girl is hiding drugs. The book seedfolks shows many forms of stereotypes. Kim plants lima bean seeds in remembrance of her deceased father and his love of gardening in. That lettuce was like having a new baby in the family.
Another member of the neighborhood is sae, a young. A little girl from vietnam, now living in a transitional neighborhood in cleveland, plants some lima bean seeds in a vacant lot, in honor of her father who. Sam hires a boy to work his section of the garden because he. After she and her husband moved to america they started a dry cleaning business. I stared at my fathers photographhis thin face stern, lips latched tight, his eyes peering permanently to the right. Narrator plants family origin personal information. Sometimes, even in the middle of ugliness and neglect, a little bit of beauty will bloom. Seedfolks by paul fleischman, judy pedersen, paperback. Yep, this book takes place within one year, and it all starts on a super cold april day in cleveland, ohio. Sae young, who grew up in korea, had trouble conceiving a child with her. This study guide consists of approximately 42 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of seedfolks. She reflects how she never got to meet him, and how he was a farmer. Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in esl classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from south africa to.
Allow time for several students to share their stories. The way virgil figures, summer is a time for relaxingnot lettucegrowing. And tio juan is a seriously cheerful guy when hes getting ready to plant his seeds. Tesol wps 9 12 seedfolks hawaii pacific university. The main storyline of seedfolks revolves around kim and others on gibb street, whose lives are affected for the better when kim plants her beans. In the book seedfolks, wendell plants something that is never specified. In gonzalos chapter gonzalo says he had a nice garden going, so he does plant something, the book just doest specify.
So one day, this little vietnamese girl named kim plants some lima beans in a. To test your memory on seedfolks by paul fleischman, please take this quiz. Looking down on the immigrantfilled neighborhood, a romanian woman watches suspiciously. She had always enjoyed being with people and she had five sisters. Started a contest for solutions for the troubled garden. The teacher can create a similar table and provide the information about kim, but leave the rest blank. The garden helps her become part of a community again. Print word pdf take our free seedfolks quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Kim, wendell, gonzolo helped his uncle plant, leona, sam, virgil, sae young, curtis, nora and mr. The books short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless onebook reads in schools and in cities across the country.
Seedfolks takes place in a small neighborhood in cleveland ohio. Wendell does plant something, or so we can infer from the text, but the book does not tell us what it is. But even so, virgil gets up early and helps out his dad. Please provide books about seeds andor plants for students to use for the designing a seed packet activity research. I put chicken wire around em, and even on top, but people could still reach in if they tried. It all starts with a young vietnamese girl who decides to surreptitiously plant a very small crop of lima. Kims garden faces trials and tribulations, but the seedfolks as florence calls them work together to overcome these. Awardwinning writer paul fleischman dazzles us with this truth in seedfolksa slim novel that bursts with hope. Young feels once people start using her funnels to collect rainwater for their plants. Sam hires a boy to work his section of the garden because he is 78 and can not do the work. As a class, read or listen to the npr backseat book club featuring seedfolks which includes an interview with author paul fleischman. When sae young joins in on the garden, she helps make the watercollecting. Each chapter of seedfolks is narrated by a different character. Assign each student a common garden plant to investigate.
Seedfolks by paul fleischman, illustrated by judy pedersen. Ala best book for young adults school library journal best book publishers weekly best book iracbc childrens choice ncte notable childrens book in the language arts a vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a cleveland vacant lot. Seedfolks final discussion when the student stories have been compiled into book form, pass them out to each student so that they have their own copy. And sam thinks the garden is such an enjoyable place that he compares the community garden on gibb street to the biblical garden of eden. This spotlight includes an interview with author paul fleischman. Cleveland, ohio this little book is a lot of fun and full of hope. Sae young tells us that sam starts a contest with the kids to see if they can figure out a way to collect water for the garden. Already pretty tough, but then, the unthinkable happened. In the book seedfolks sae young has been locking herself away from people.
Historysocial science the characters from seedfolks arrived in cleveland from many different countries and the plants in our gardens are the same way. To curtis, who believes he can win back lateeshas heart with a harvest of. Seedfolks by paul fleischman is a multicultural realistic fiction book. Ana sneaks out to dig for contraband and pulls up kims plants. Introduce of book seedfolks by paul fleischman lesson. When a 9yearold vietnamese girl named kim plants bean seeds to honor her dead father, she unknowingly starts a change. A vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a cleveland vacant lot. The story describes an empty lot on gibb street in cleveland, ohio. See more ideas about teaching, 8th grade ela and plant science. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hardpacked soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Seedfolks begins with 9 year old kim, a young vietnamese girl, who stands before the family altar paying respect to her dead father. Get ready for a veggiefilled journey across one single year. The gardeners have difficulty watering their plants. Kim also remembers how she planted lima beans with her class the year prior, so she plants lima beans and resolves to have them survive.
The result is a graphic organizer that students complete as they read the book. Check out how virgil talks about taking care of the new plants. Yep, this kid may be young, but he sure is loyal to his father. Seedfolks is just a slip of a book but a very interesting story well told. She is a korean woman who came to america with her husband. Seedfolks by paul fleischman 1997 synopsis, discussion questions and activities.
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