English Vocabulary
Korean Culture
Story Elements
Characters
Misc.
100
Having special rights, advantages, or immunities
What is privileged?
100
The common people of Korea, they were peasants, laborers, fishermen, some craftsmen and merchants. They were considered "clean workers" but had little social status. Generally they were poor.
What is the Sangmin
100
The main character's mothers job.
What is a farmhand?
100
The main character
Who is Song-Ho
100
The illustrations of The Royal Bee are this type of painting.
What are oil paintings?
200
A social gathering for a specific purpose, as to carry out a communal task or hold competitions
What is a bee?
200
Highest social class of the Korean Choson dynasty (1392–1910). These people were granted land and stipends and were the only social class permitted to attend school.
What are the Yanbang?
200
These made the main character want to go to school.
What are the school bells?
200
The main character's teacher.
Who is Master Min
200
The authors of the Royal Bee.
Who are Frances and Ginger Park?
300
A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
What is an ancestor?
300
The school where the main character attended?
What is the Sodong School?
300
The main character won this at the Royal Bee.
What is a cow, gold coins, and silk
300
The leader of the Royal Bee.
Who is the Governor?
300
The country where the story takes place.
What is Korea?
400
Lacking in quantity or quality.
What is meager?
400
The Korean teacher is called this?
What is Master?
400
This is the question that the main character answered to win the Royal Bee.
What is "what does winning the Royal Bee mean to you?"
400
Works in the cornfields.
Who is Song-Ho's mother?
400
The gift from the main character's classmates.
What is silk to where to the Royal Bee?
500
A person who is highly educated or has an aptitude for study.
What is a scholar?
500
The main character went here for the Royal Bee.
What is the Governor's Palace
500
The main character was chosen to participate in the Royal bee by these people.
Who are his classmates?
500
Had been a fisherman.
Who is Song-Ho's Father?
500
Where the main character hid to listen to the lectures.
What is right outside the door of the school?
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