E1 Novel Study

What is the name of our novel?

• Outwit, Outplay, Outlast

• United Together

• Outcasts United

• Soccer Time

What is interesting or unique about the soccer team?

• All the players are refugees.

• All the players are boys 13-15.

• The coach used to be a very famous soccer player.

• The coach is the first female soccer coach in their league.

Coach Luma can best be described as ___ during the team's game in the introduction.

• Quiet, Watchful

• Loud, Aggressive

• Optimistic, Encouraging

• Distracted, Worried

Coach Luma is also a refugee. She fled the war in Jordan and her entire family died.

• True

• False

Coach Luma has a great relationship with her family. They support her goals and come watch soccer games with her.

• True

• False

Beatrice and her sons came to America to escape war and dangerous people. In America, they were...

• safe, happy, and rich.

• alone and still worried about crime (like being mugged).

• rejected as outcasts because they couldn't speak English.

• happy, but also bored and lonely.

Which town in Georgia accepted refugees?

• Clarkston

• Atlanta

• Thomasville

• Waycross

At the end of chapter 3, the town is...

• glad that they saved lives by relocating refugees.

• angry at the idea of more refugees moving in.

• worried about the increase in crime all the refugees will bring.

• sad after a prominent member of the refugee community died.

This novel is...

• nonfiction

• fiction

• a collection of essays and poems

For this first reading check, you had to read...

• Part 1 (chapters 1-7)

• Introduction and chapters 1-3

• Pages 2-12

• The introduction