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The Way Home

Little Sang-woo doesn’t want to leave Seoul to live with his mute grandmother in the countryside, but his mother leaves him there while she looks for a new job. Fractious and ill-mannered, Sang-woo ignores and taunts his grandmother. When she won’t buy batteries for his toy, he even steals from her. But over time, and in the face of her unquestioning love, he learns to admire and respect her.

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The Way Home is an engaging tool to teach about traditional Korean culture. Our lesson plans for this film span the curriculum, including Social Studies, Math, Science, Media Literacy, and a hands-on Visual Arts lesson.

Film runtime: 1 hour, 29 minutes.

Film rating: PG.

Grade Levels: The curriculum was written expressly for students in grades 6 to 9. However, the curriculum can be adapted for older and younger students.

The Way Home Curriculum Guide

Lesson 1: The Republic of Korea (Social Studies)
Lesson 2: Silent Speech (General Cross-Cultural Understanding)
Lesson 3: Viewing The Way Home (Media Literacy)
Lesson 4: Protagonist-Antagonist (Visual Literacy)
Lesson 5: Confucian Values (Social Studies, Language Arts)
Lesson 6: Juxtaposition (Media Literacy)
Lesson 7: At Home in Korea (Film-Specific Cross-Cultural Understanding)
Lesson 8: The Trade Game (Social Studies, Economics)
Lesson 9: Using Graphs (Mathematics)
Lesson 10: How We Produce Sound (Science)
Lesson 11: Korean Fighter Shield Kites (Visual Arts)

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Glossary of Film Terms

The Glossary of Film Terms is useful for the Film Literacy lessons that are part of this curriculum guide.

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Related Resources

The Way Home is part of our global education collection of award-winning films from around the world for introducing students to global cultures and customs. We also recommend: Children of Heaven (Iran), Like Stars on Earth (India), Please Vote for Me (China), The Cup (Tibet), Wadjda (Saudi Arabia), and Whale Rider (Aotearoa / New Zealand).

Teaching about Confucianism? We also recommend Please Vote for Me.

To supplement Lesson 2 about Silent Speech, and to support discussions of the nonspeaking grandmother character, educators may want to reference the lesson about language, power and ableism in our Crip Camp curriculum guide.

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Journeys in Film supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more about teaching with UN SDGs. This curriculum guide connects to the following SDGs.

Kelly green. White number 3 in the upper left hand side. Text beside it reads Good Health and Well-Being. White art below showing a jagged line and a heart.Magenta background. 10 in the left-hand corner. Reduced Inequalities beside the number. Central image on the magenta background is a not quite complete circle with equal marks inside.

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