Watch Your Language
Also the title of Alan Gratz book, this can refers to a displaced person forced out of their country due to war, natural disaster, or persecution.
What is a Refugee?
One of the main protagonists, this person is from Cuba.
Who is Isabel?
What year did the Arab Spring start?
What is 2011?
"ShhhhhHHHHHH-THOOOOOOM!" (p.32)
What is onomatopoeia?
What does the phrase "wet foot, dry foot" mean?
If caught in the water, Cubans are sent back; if they make it to land, they can stay.
A group of these raided Josef's house the night his father was taken away.
What are Nazis/Brownshirts?
This person is the younger brother of Mahmoud.
Who is Waleed?
The year that the USSR was dissolved.
When is 1991?
"...a little gap between her two front teeth that made her look like a chipmunk." (p.19)
What is a simile?
Isabel’s friend Ivan and his father, Señor Castillo, are secretly building a boat in their shed, but they lie and say they are building....
a doghouse
Rising action is the series of events in a story that build tension, develop conflict, and increase stakes leading up to the climax
Which one was NOT an example of rising action in Mahmoud's story
1. They get tricked by the smugglers
2. Dangerous sea crossing with sharks
3. Jail time at a Hungarian detention center
2. Dangerous sea crossing with sharks
He was the only character that never encountered sharks
Almost thirteen, this person is excited for their upcoming religious ceremony to become an adult.
Who is Josef?
Also known as the night of broken glass.
What is Kristallnacht?
"...shirtless in the hundred-degree August heat, their white and brown and black backs glistening in the sun." (p.25)
Personification, imagery, allusion
What is imagery?
In chapter 12 of Refugee, after diving back into the car to escape gunfire and retrieving his phone, Mahmoud's father joked that he needed his phone to play _________ _____________
Angry Birds
Theme is the message of the story. What theme does not work for ALL three characters
1. Trauma and growing up
2. Accepting and open to different religions
3. Empathy and hope
4. The dehumanization of refugees
Accepting and open to different religions
Isabel's religion was never discussed.
The young neighbor of Isabel.
Who is Ivan?
This dictator took power in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
"...Isabel could play the storm clouds from the sky." (p.10)
What is a metaphor?
Why did Isabel feel her father needed to leave Cuba immediately followning the riot?
Two of these must be said...
Isabel witnesses her father (Papi) being beaten by police.
The officer vows to find and arrest her father.
Because her father had previously tried to leave and was imprisoned for a year, Isabel knows the threat of imprisonment is real.
The Decision: Realizing that staying means her father will be sent away for good, she knows the family must flee to Miami immediately.
Where does Isabel work to make money?
Downtown Cuba or Maleacon
To get home from school, Mahmoud and Waleed would do what?
walk a different route every day
What is Islam.
Her eyes were like a deep ocean filled with endless mystery." This is an example of
What is simile.
In chapter 6, why did Mahmoud's mother, Fatima quit her job at the hospital?
the trauma and horror of the injuries she treated became too much to handle.