Fiction Signpost with "Refugee"

Fiction Signpost

"Refugee" Addition

They help us comprehend the reading and expand on our thinking.

​Fiction signposts are found throughout fiction stories.

​Remember...

They show readers information about the characters, the conflict, or the plot of the story and help readers understand what is happening.

This is when a character acts differently than what is expected or changes during the story.

​​Contrast and Contradictions

This is when someone older, smarter, or has more power gives advice or guidance to another character.

​​Words of the Wiser

This is when a charcter faces a difficult situation and has to make a difficult decision. A character must answer a difficult question that does not have an easy answer.

​​Tough Questions

Multiple Choice

Name the Signpost.

”I have to go. We’re building…a doghouse.” Ivan said, before sprinting away. Isabel shook her head. Ivan though he was being sneaky, but Isabel knew exactly what he and his father were building in their shed, and it wasn’t a dog house. It was a boat.”

• Words of the Wiser

• Tough Questions

• Ah-ha Moment

• Contrast and Contradiction

Multiple Choice

Name the Signpost.

“Luis didn’t have to say anything. As her grandfather arrived and helped Isabel get her father to his feet, she understood. Papi had to leave Cuba. Tonight.”

• Contrast and Contradictions

• Tough Questions

• Memory Moment

• Words of the Wiser

Multiple Choice

Name the Signpost.

“Mahmoud Bishara was invisible, and that’s exactly how he wanted it. Being invisible was how he survived.”

• Contrast and Contradiction

• Words of the Wiser

• Tough Questions

• Memory Moments

Multiple Choice

Name the Signpost.

"In all the times he'd dreamed of this day, his father had always been there to recite a blessing with him. But maybe this is what becoming a man is, Josef thought. Maybe becoming a man means not relying on your father anymore.

• Contrast and Contradiction

• Words of the Wiser

• Tough Questions

• Memory Moment

This is when a character in the story realizes something important.

​​Ah-ha Moment

This is when a character remembers something from the past.

​​Memory Moment

This is when something is repeated or happens over and over again. Usually a symbol or a quote.

​​Again and Again

Multiple Choice

Name the Signpost.

On the train, Josef and his family sat in a compartment labeled J , for Jew, so no "real" Germans would sit there by accident.

Banned from the movie theaters in Germany because she was a Jew, Ruthie had seen her first cartoon on board during movie night and loved it - even if it was followed by a newsreel with Hitler yelling about Jews.

• Ah-ha Moment

• Memory Moment

• Again and Again

• Tough Question

Multiple Choice

Name the Signpost.

It was a different world below decks, Josef thought. A world outside the magic little bubble he and the other Jews lived in above deckd on the MS St. Louis. Here, below decks, was the real world.

• Memory Moment

• Ah-ha Moment

• Tough Question

• Again and Again

Multiple Choice

Name the Signpost.

"Do you want to build a snowman?" his father sang. Mahmoud's dad looked sheepish. "It doesn't have to be a snowman."

"Had to go back for the phone," he told them. "How else am I going to play Angry Birds?" He was joking again.

• Memory Moment

• Ah-ha Moment

• Tough Question

• Again and Again

Multiple Choice

Name the Signpost.

"I didn't know you had a brother," Isabel said to her grandfather.

"He left in the airlifts in the 1970s. The Freedom Fighters, when the US airlifted political dissidents off the island," Lito explained. "But Guillermo was no dissident. He just wanted to live in the US. I could have gone too. I was a police officer once, like Luis and Amara..."

• Memory Moment

• Ah-ha Moment

• Tough Question

• Again and Again