REFUGEE (Chapters 1-18)

Josef's home was broken into by

• thieves looking for cash

• Nazis who came to warn them

• Nazis who take his father away

Josef's family has to

• leave their country

• register with the government

• find another apartment

Mahmoud, one of the protagonist, is being forced out of his home because of what?

• Genocide
• Aliens
• Civil War
• A Depression

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

What is the destination Mahmoud and his family are trying to get to?

• Lebannon
• Turkey
• United States of America
• Germany

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CCSS.RI.6.1

Mahmoud and Josef are both:

• sad to see their fathers unable to go to work because it is illegal for them to keep working

• very popular at school

• invisible

• trying to get to Germany

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

In Cuba, housing, supplies and food were all in short supply. All of the quotes below demonstrate how hungry people were EXCEPT:

• People had even broken into the Havana Zoo and eaten the animals...

• The cat was hungry, just like everyone else in Cuba, and its belly quickly won over its fear.

• The kitten wasn't too different from her, Isabel realized: thin, hungry and in need of a bath.

• She was barefoot like always, and wore a tank top and shorts.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Why does Isabel need to leave her country?

• She was getting bullied by two girls at school

• Her mother ran out of food for the family

• A policeman threatened to arrest her father and keep him in jail

• Her house was bombed by the police

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What risky choice did Josef make on the train?

• Took off his Star of David armband

• Yelled at a Nazi soldier

• Snuck into another car to see his father

• Wrote a letter to the president

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

“Look! I found a bit of a dead fish on the beach for the cat.” Isabel recoiled at the smell, but the kitten came running back, eating greedily from Ivan’s hand” (page 9).

The word recoiled means?

• Seemed immoral

• Taste appalling

• Felt famished

• Flinched back in disgust.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the effect on the reader of moving back and forth between the stories from different periods of history?

• The reader has to pay close attention to each story’s plot.

• The reader can better understand how each time period is different.

• The reader is able to better connect how each of the characters experienced many similar things even though their stories took place in different times.

• The reader becomes more knowledgeable about those periods in history.

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7