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?
Josef is excited to be heading to this country with his family.
What is Cuba?
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?
When is Ms.Arilins birthday and year?
September 19th 1974
Mahmoud decides it is best to be this to stay out of trouble.
What is invisible?
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?
Josef and his family were from this city in Germany...
What is Berlin?
Isabel calls her grandfather this which an abbreviation of the Spanish word for grandfather.
What is Lito?
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?
How many times a day does Mahmoud pray
What is 5 times a day
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.
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia