Other Words For Home PDF

An Introduction
Before We Begin: Set Up Notebooks

1. Open to a new section in your notebooks.
2. At the top of the page, put today’s date and title your page Other Words for Home
Stations
3. Create a new heading (“Station 1”, “Station 2”, etc.) when you begin each new
station in your notebooks. Organize your notes under the corresponding heading.
4. When multiple tasks are given, be sure to follow the numbers.
Station 1: Thinking About Themes (10 minutes)
Think about the word home. For every person, home is something different.
Home could be a particular building, a place, or even a person.
Where do you feel most at home? What does home look like to you?
In your notebook, illustrate your idea of home. You may illustrate in

whatever style you’d like. You can draw images that are home to you; you
can create a web with the word “home” in the middle and add words around
it that relate; be creative! Whatever method you choose, your illustration
should clearly show what the word home means to you.
When you are finished, advance to the next station.

Station 2: Time & Place (20 minutes)
1. This novel revolves around the
protagonist’s life in Syria, and the
circumstances in Syria that force her and
her family to relocate to the United States.
To the left, see a map of Syria. Notice the 2. The image of the plane above will link you to
capital, Damascus, and identify Aleppo,
a map of the Middle East. Click the link and
another major city in Syria.
identify Syria on the map.
3. There is a civil war taking place in Then, click the globe, which will link you to a
Syria, the protagonist’s home country, map of the world. Locate Syria on the world
which is why she and her family have map. Make note of where it sits on the globe
to flee. Open this Google Doc. Read the and what it is near.
4. After reading background information linked article, watch the video and
about the Syrian Civil War, what do you respond to the questions in your
imagine life must be like for children your notebooks.
age living in Syria? Respond in a few When you are finished, advance to
sentences in your notebooks. the next station.
Station 3: Main Characters (10 minutes)
Copy the information about the characters below into your notebooks:
● Jude: Protagonist of the story. Twelve year old girl in Syria who has to leave her brother and father
behind to move to Cincinnati, Ohio, to live with her uncle’s family and escape the war at home.
● Issa: Jude’s older brother who joins the rebel forces in Syria, fighting against the corrupt
government.
● Baba: Jude’s father who remains in Syria to continue operating his store.
● Fatima: Jude’s best friend in Syria.
● Autie Amal: Fatima’s mom, who is a longtime friend of Jude’s Mama and is like an aunt to Jude.
● Uncle Mazin: Mama’s brother and Jude’s uncle who they move in with in Cincinnati.
● Aunt Michelle: Uncle Mazin’s wife.
● Sarah: Jude’s cousin, Uncle Mazin and Aunt Michelle’s daughter, who is the same age as Jude.

Station 4: The Story & Conflict (30 minutes)
1. Jude leaves her home, her best friend, 2. With that in mind, respond to the following
her father, and her brother behind in Syria questions in your notebook:
when she comes to Cincinnati as a refugee.
● Jude is a 12 year old refugee from Syria who
Read this article about life as a refugee. is forced to move to Cincinnati, Ohio. What
do you imagine are some challenges Jude
In your notebook, respond to the following might face as she relocates and begins her
questions: life in the United States?
● What are refugees? ● Put yourself in the shoes of a refugee. How
● What are some different kinds of do you think it feels to have to leave one’s
refugees? Why are people forced to home and relocate to a new country? What
leave their homes? are some challenges you would expect to
● How do you think refugees are face? How do you imagine Jude feels leaving
received when moved to a new her father, brother, and best friend behind?
country? Do you think they are
welcomed happily by the people of
the new country? Why or why not?
Station 5: Writing Style (20 minutes)
1. Essential Terms: Copy the following 2. Other Words for Home is what is called a verse novel. Add the following
definitions into your notebooks: information to your notebooks:
● Prose: written language in its ● This means it is a novel (a full-length book) written in verse instead
“ordinary” form; the way of prose. Therefore, the whole book reads like a poem.
novels are typically written ● The writing is broken up into stanzas, which are groups of lines in
● Verse: written language that is poetry. (Think of the stanzas like “paragraphs” of poetry.)
arranged with metrical rhythm;
the way poetry is written 4. Write your own poem that
3. Throughout our reading of this verse novel, we will also study various captures some part of your
poetry. Read the poem linked here. Respond to the following questions in experience as a teenager and
your notebooks after you read it: who you are! Your poem should
● What does this poem express about life as a teenage girl? How do be short- about 5-10 lines. It does
you relate to the feelings the poem expresses? not have to rhyme but should
● What connections can you make between the poem and challenges have a rhythm.
you expect Jude may face in the story?

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An Introduction

Before We Begin: Set Up Notebooks

In your notebook, illustrate your idea of home. You may illustrate in

When you are finished, advance to the next station.

When you are finished, advance to the next station.

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