Reading Skills
Use clues from the text plus prior knowledge to make an educated guess
What is an INFERENCE?
The season in which the fever starts.
What is summer?
The first character to pass away from Yellow fever.
Who is Polly?
The refugee camp is located in this "country".
What is Kenya?
The main character in the book When Stars Are Scattered.
Who is Omar?
To figure out what might happen next in a story
What is make a prediction?
The president at the time of the fever.
Who is George Washington?
Woman who works for Mattie's family and gives her services to help others in need
Who is Eliza?
Where Omar and Hassan lived before the war.
What is Somalia?
The name of Omar's younger brother.
Who is Hassan?
Figure out what words mean by reading the sentence before and after.
The city in which the novel takes place
What is Philadelphia?
Matilda's "stomach flipped over like an egg in a skillet" for him.
Who is Nathaniel Benson?
At the beginning of the book, we find out that Omar and Hassan have lived at Dadaab for this long
What is 7 years?
The name of Omar's best friend at the refugee camp.
Who is Jeri?
a writing device that's used to interrupt the present storyline for a brief return to past events
What is flashback?
The name of the war Grandfather fought in
What is the Revolutionary War?
The girl who lost her mother to the fever and is taken care of by Matilda.
Omar and Hassan lived in this "block" in the refugee camp.
What is block A2?
The name of Omar and Hassan's foster mom.
Who is Fatuma?
a literary device in which an author gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
the author of Yellow Fever 1791
Who is Laurie Halse Anderson?
Doctor whose methods hurt people more than help them (believes bleeding helps to cure the fever)
Who is Dr. Rush?
Dadaab is so large that there are 3 separate camps. The camp where the characters live is also known as "city of light"?
What is Ifo?
Made arrangements for Omar to go to school.
Who is Salem?