Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.Type of Activity: Setting Map Common Core Standards
This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself.Difficulty Level 3 (Developing to Mastery) Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. She lives and writes in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of the novels for teens My Heart and Other Black Holes, which has been translated into over twenty languages, and Here We Are Now.
Narrated by a 12-year-old Syrian girl, the novel is both a coming-of-age story and a. Jasmine Wargas debut middle grade book, Other Words for Home, is a Newbery Honor Book. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US-and her new label of “Middle Eastern,” an identity she’s never known before.īut this life also brings unexpected surprises-there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. Jasmine Wargas 2019 Other Words for Home is a middle grade novel in verse.
But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives.Īt first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book!Ī gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed.
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