Other Words for Home Vocabulary Spider Map
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Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
By Liane Hicks
Other Words for Home tells the story of 12-year-old Jude, who lives with her family in a seaside, tourist town in Syria. The increasingly violent Syrian Civil War forces her parents to make the difficult decision for Jude and her pregnant mother to flee to the United States to live with their uncle's family. Engage students with premade Storyboard That activities!
Storyboard Description
Starting a unit or lesson with the key vocabulary aids in overall comprehension and retention. In this activity, students will create a storyboard that defines and illustrates key vocabulary found in the book Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga. Students will create a spider map of 3-5 terms at the teachers discretion. Each cell will contain a term or allusion, its definition or description, and an appropriate illustration.
Storyboard Text
- MARHABA
- "Marhaba, Jude!"
- ALI BABA'S
- MUEZZIN
- Allahu Akbar . . .!
- HABIBTI
- "Be brave, habibti!"
- Arabic for "hello"
- "Marhaba, Layla!"
- A man who calls Muslims to prayer from the minaret of a mosque. In the context of the book, Jude is referring to the speaker whose voice she hears outside her window early in the morning.
- Arabic for "sweetheart"
- OTHER WORDS FOR HOME VOCABULARY
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