"The Swimmers"
Yusra and Sara flee from this country.
What is Syria?
They are escaping immigrants.
What are Refugees?
The word “heritage” means.
What is a person’s background, traditions, and cultural history?
Name one historical event that led to a large wave of immigration.
What is the Irish Potato Famine (1840s), World Wars, or economic crises.
Garang’s journey begins here.
What is a village in Sudan?
Yusra trains for the Olympics in this country.
What is Germany?
The length of time the medical exam took at Ellis Island.
What is 6 seconds?
A person who moves to another country to live permanently.
What is an immigrant?
A major immigration processing center in the U.S. from 1892 to 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
Three challenges the boys faced on their journey to a safe place.
What is Hunger, thirst, wild animals, and exhaustion.
Yusra competes in this event.
What is the 2016 Rio Olympics?
Three reasons people immigrate to a new country.
What is better job opportunities, education, safety, or to reunite with family.
Define the term “citizenship.”
What is being a legal member of a country with rights and responsibilities?
Yusra and Sara had to leave their country because of this.
What is a Syrian revolution?
One major theme in many of the stories in this unit.
What is Survival and resilience.
This happens to the sisters at the end of the film.
What is Yusra becomes an Olympic swimmer, while Sara dedicates her life to helping refugees.
Ways immigrants contribute to their new communities.
What is they bring new cultures, work in various industries, start businesses, and enrich the economy and society.
To adapt to a new culture. Example: Learning the language and customs of a new country.
What is assimilate?
This limitted immigration in the U.S. in the 1920s.
What is the Great Depression?
This happens to some of the boys at the end of the story.
What is some are resettled in new countries like the U.S.
The coach that trains Yusra in Germany.
Who is Sven Spannenkrebs?
Ways government policies affect immigrants’ opportunities.
What is make it easier or harder to get jobs, visas, and citizenship?
Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
What is perseverance?
The boys left their home in search of a safe country because of fighting between these two sections.
What is South Sudan and North Sudan?
The name or the place of the refugee camp where the boys stay for years.
What is Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.