TEACHER RESOURCE GUIDE
“Thank you for remembering us.” (2018)
Survivor Yong-Soo “Grandma” Lee (b.Korea, 1928) |
“Comfort Women” History and Issues: Teacher Resource Guide, Third Edition
Author: Sung Sohn Contributors: Christina Tang, Faye Kwan, Erin Hanlon, Carrie Seidler, Eric Mar, Steven Whyte & Ellen Wilson ISBN: 978-1-950111-14-5 This third edition of “Comfort Women” History and Issues: Teacher Resource Guide is comprised of five main parts: 1) The history of remembering and honoring “comfort women” through education and collective activism; 2) primary source documents with background information; 3) survivors’ testimonies from Korea, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, and the Netherlands; 4) reflections from a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Eric Mar, who proposed a resolution to install a “comfort women” memorial and from sculptor Steven Whyte, who designed the Women’s Column of Strength memorial, co-written by gallery director, Ellen Wilson; 5) lesson plans, worksheets, and activity sheets. Lesson plans were developed by Christina Tang, Faye Kwan, Erin Hanlon, and Carrie Seidler—active San Francisco Bay Area high school teachers committed to teaching the history of marginalized populations. Parents and educators created activity sheets included in the resource guide to reinforce and integrate learning. Supplemental materials include a back-to-back sheet of quick facts on military sexual slavery, a map for a History Keeper origami activity, and puzzles. In spring 2018, ESJF distributed copies of “Comfort Women” History and Issues: Teacher Resource Guide throughout SFUSD high schools. |
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“The Guide reveals the huge amount of work that went into its creation: finding the primary sources; creating the timelines; and creating the prompts to guide students deeper into the sources and the events they reveal. It's all very well done.”
Uldis Kruze, Professor of History, University of San Francisco
“An innovative approach to inform the next generation of the tragedies that happened to real people many years before they were born. The author and contributors bring life to these sad memories while also examining this tragic history from historical bird’s eye view and looking towards the future.”
Theresa Der-Lan Yeh, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and research fellow of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, National Taiwan University
Uldis Kruze, Professor of History, University of San Francisco
“An innovative approach to inform the next generation of the tragedies that happened to real people many years before they were born. The author and contributors bring life to these sad memories while also examining this tragic history from historical bird’s eye view and looking towards the future.”
Theresa Der-Lan Yeh, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and research fellow of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, National Taiwan University