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Newsela | Countries Of The World: Germany

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Today's Germany is one of the leading countries in Europe.

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Author Interview

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Cuba’s history is reflected in its food, language, art and — perhaps most of all — its music.

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Family History Research

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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Emir Eldem- Red- Pre-Reading Activity #1

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Emir Eldem- Red- Pre-Reading Activity #1

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I was surprised when Alan Gratz mentioned the MS St. Louis, and how many Northern Countries declined the arrival of Jews, who were then forced to come back to Europe just in time for Hitler to invade countries they had resettled in.

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I liked how Alan Gratz has different stories for different people.

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Maia Shamaa- Green- Pre-Reading Activity #1

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Maia Shamaa- Green- Pre-Reading Activity #1

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I was inspired when the author, Alan Gratz spoke about why he chose Germany, Cuba and Syria instead of other refugee crisis. I was surprised when Alan Gratz mentioned how Jews were forced to leave Germany because they hadn't accepted Jews.

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Seif Farid - Green (What inspired or surprised me from this interview?) 

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Seif Farid - Green (What inspired or surprised me from this interview?) 

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I was really inspired because of the extent that Alan gratz went to in order to get the information needed to write the book. He was really determined to write about such a strong topic that needed to be heard.

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Marcos Rohner - Red - Pre Reading Activity #1

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Marcos Rohner - Red - Pre Reading Activity #1

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I really liked that Alan Gratz spoke about Germany, Cuba, and Syria even thought he could have talked about any other refugee crisis.

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Ali Mehdi- Red - Pre Reading Activity #1 

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Ali Mehdi- Red - Pre Reading Activity #1 

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I found it interesting that the author decided to not only discuss josef's story, but also mirabel, and mahmood's story. He felt so passionate and intrigued by the topic, that he made multiple stories regarding it! ( in the refugee book)

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I was surprised by Alan Gratz's observations and critical thinking in making decisions. I also found it interesting how he is a notetaker and how he jotted down ideas those many ideas. The last thing that surprised me was the meaning behind every bit of the story.

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Anastasia Kolomiychenko - Blue Class (infographic)

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Anastasia Kolomiychenko - Blue Class (infographic)

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Pre-Reading Activity #1 Yara Ezzeldin Blue

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Pre-Reading Activity #1 Yara Ezzeldin Blue

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I was surprised that he saw a raft that belonged to refugees who escaped their country. I liked that Alan Gratz wrote about the countries he knew about and wanted to share it with children because children don't always get to know about these crises around the world. Alan Gratz sounded very strong about his topics because of the knowledge he knew about and wrote it because of how he felt about and knew about it. I liked that he used interviews with Cuban refugees to understand what was really going on. The author's purpose was to address to people the problems going to people that we need to help. I also like how he gave advice to people who want to be writers.

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Anastasia Kolomiychenko - Blue Class (Reading Activity #1)

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Anastasia Kolomiychenko - Blue Class (Reading Activity #1)

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I was surprised and interested how Alan Gratz is a notetaker and how he has millions of ideas. It was very interesting to know meaning behind the story. I was really surprised by his ideas.

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Mohammed Al Kamil - Yellow Class Infographic #1

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Mohammed Al Kamil - Yellow Class Infographic #1

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Mohammed Al Kamil - Yellow Class Infographic #2

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Mohammed Al Kamil - Yellow Class Infographic #2

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Kami Export - March 17th-25th - The Refugee Experience  (24 Mar 2022, 2_48 PM)

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ek1AJaNWheviaR8LhlP-3zukFa4IOxCD6G4CMhQBlBU/edit#slide=id.p

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I liked how Alan Gratz made different stories for different people. He also spoke about Germany and cuba instead of other crisis and was specifically pointing out these ones.

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I am surprised by the extent that which the author went to research and speak about many controversial topics instead of modern-day crises like Israel attacking Palestine.

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What surprised me is that he felt that the refugee experience had all began from a single ship that was navigating it way throughout the world, because if hitler and the invasion he has caused, it was also really interesting how passionate he is about this subject and it seems that he is really intrigued by this subject.

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I was surprised by how the book started from a ordinary ship, it surprised me how the extent the author went to, to make a good book on a very sad and depressing topic, and lastly I was impressed on how the author pulled of such a good book with such a topic

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Pre-Reading Activity #1- Janna Al-Azzawi (blue class)

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Pre-Reading Activity #1- Janna Al-Azzawi (blue class)

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I was interested and surprised about how Alan Gratz chose to speak up about Cuba, Syria, and Germany rather than some other refugee crisis.  I liked how there wasn't much written about the refugees. Therefore, Alan Gratz used interviews with Cuban refugees. I was also surprised how Alan Gratz got the idea to start his book from a raft he saw at the beach. I was interested in what Alan Gratz wanted children to learn from his book. I love how he stated "Refugees don't have one face, they don't have one religion, they don't have one skin color, and they don't have one point of origin." He was truly set on to compose around such a solid point that required to be informed to people.

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Pre-Reading Activity #2- Janna Al-Azzawi (blue class)

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Pre-Reading Activity #2- Janna Al-Azzawi (blue class)

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This is the link to my note-taking document!!

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Pre-Reading Activity #2- Janna Al-Azzawi (blue class)

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Pre-Reading Activity #2- Janna Al-Azzawi (blue class)

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Flip grid didn't work for me, so I used screencastify!

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Copy of Immigration Story Research - Google Docs.webm

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Pre-Reading Activity #1 Awad Charafeddine (Blue Class)

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Pre-Reading Activity #1 Awad Charafeddine (Blue Class)

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After watching the interview with Alan Gratz, something that really captured my attention was the fact that he literally saw a possible refugee raft, THAT WAS STILL IN CONTACT! I mean, the chances of that have to be at least one in a million. Imagine you are about to start writing a book about refugees, and then you see a refugee's raft. Wow. Something I really liked about Alan Gratz is how perseverant he was. He clearly worked a lot on Refugee, and it was clear that many, many, MANY days had been spent only working on writing Refugee. He shows lots of perseverance and is very creative. His mind is able to wander between ideas, and he is able to connect those ideas in astonishing ways.

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Infographic - Awad Charafeddine (Blue Class)

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Infographic - Awad Charafeddine (Blue Class)

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Pre reading activity 1 - Salim Blue class

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Pre reading activity 1 - Salim Blue class

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The questions that arise after reading the jacket and listening to the interview  was, do they all get to safety,  how do they end up having a connection, which story did he enjoy writing about the most and which character he thought had most in common with him. What surprised me from the interview was how so many northern countries denied jewish people who had to come back to Europe and then hitler invaded the countries that the people moved to. I was also surprised about how someone left their country with only a raft and some other things that would help him or her stay alive.

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I was surprised that Alan Gratz wrote about three different refugees from different countries even though he didn't experience them or connected with them. I am also surprised how some people used rafts to flee their country. I am very surprised that he took so much time to research and I think this shows how passionate he is about the refugees.

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Mohammed Al Kamil - Yellow Class Activity #2

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Mohammed Al Kamil - Yellow Class Activity #2

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ksMqp7rQOLcfgC9TDjGEUyC1x8IFrDUadwuOIOqwE3c/edit
This is the link to my doc.

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Mohammed Al Kamil - Yellow Class Activity #2

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Mohammed Al Kamil - Yellow Class Activity #2

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For some reason Flipgrid didn’t work so I screen recorded it.

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Pre reading activity 2 - Salim Sacoor - Blue class

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Pre reading activity 2 - Salim Sacoor - Blue class

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Chapter summary - Mahmoud - Salim, Janna, Nastya 

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Chapter summary - Mahmoud - Salim, Janna, Nastya 

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In Syria there is a civil war and Mahmoud gets caught up in it. He tries to disconnect his relationships with any of his friends in order to try and stay invisible. He sees people getting beaten up but can't do anything about it to try and stay invisible. A missile hit his building and from then on Mahmoud and his family knew they had to flee.

Quote - "Waleed’s eyes were alive, but empty". ( Gratz pg 31 ) This quote is important as it sends a message of how hurt they are.

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Isabel Summary-Blue Class: Yara, Awad, Ryu, and Boudi

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Isabel Summary-Blue Class: Yara, Awad, Ryu, and Boudi

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The character Isabel is a caring and kind child. She deals with lots of chaos in Cuba due to President Castro, and her country's economic debt. "She listened now, intently, trying to hear the heartbeat of Cuba in her own music.

What she heard instead was the sound of breaking glass." (Gratz, Page 13) Cuba has become a corrupted society and because of leaving Cuba being banned, she has lost almost all hope. Isabel's father has been arrested for attempting to escape Cuba, and her neighbors the Castillos are building a secret boat to escape Cuba. When Castro let the country know that they can escape Cuba without being stopped she and her neighbors escaped Luis Castillo and his girlfriend were police officers but and joined them even in the police weren't allowed to escape.

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Chapter Summary - Joseph - Seif, Alessandro, Maia, Rafael

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Chapter Summary - Joseph - Seif, Alessandro, Maia, Rafael

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Josef is a Jewish German living in Nazi Germany when his home got invaded. During this invasion, Josef’s father was taken away by the Nazis and put into jail. Later on, the Nazi’s allowed him to leave under the condition that they leave the country. After receiving this information, Josef, his mother, and his sister took a train to meet their father at the MS St. Louis boat where many other Jews were also fleeing the country. Before boarding the ship Josef and his mother noticed his father's suspicious activity and it worried them, he was being very secretive and protective. “He looked around manically, like there were spies everywhere. “We have to go. We can’t stay here. We have to get on board before they stop us.”(Gratz Page 25) Even after boarding the boat, Josef’s father's suspicious activities didn’t change, yet they still had a whole boat ride ahead of them.

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Chapter summary 1-6: Cloe, Can, Anthony and Jad

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Chapter summary 1-6: Cloe, Can, Anthony and Jad

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1. As Joseph and his family are sleeping, some nazi members invade their house, destroying everything simply because they're jewish. As they take their father to a prison they doubt whether or not to take Joseph but they choose to let him stay. After 6 months they finally hear from his father, saying he's been released, but, that if they don't leave in 14 days, they'll be asked to leave.

2. As a war conflicts upon Cuba, Isabel and  her family and in grave danger. Although the commotion is frightening she tries to make the best out of it. One day, she goes to the plaza with her father and grandfather to play the trumpet and to spread joy only for a terrible commotion to occur.

3. The situation in Syrian is not the best, as the Arab spring came to Syrian a war begun. With many Syrian protestors fighting for life and a king threatening to kill many, Mahmood learns to turn "invisible". As many terrible things have happened, many of which he's seen he's become extremely paranoid, he's chosen to have no friends in case anything happened.

4. As Joseph, his mom and sister choose to leave they go on a train to get their dad back and eventually flee. As Joseph leaves the compartment, he goes to look around to find a place to buy something for his sister. As he bends down, his jewish band falls from his arm and a hitler youth member see's his band and takes him to their group, he's shocked to see his old friend there as well, Klaus. Only now he was part of the hitler youth, he knew this meant trouble.

5. The soldiers had caught Isabel's father and were starting to hit him extremely, as he tried to fight back, Isabel saw her best friend's brother, a soldier. He calls back the rest of the soldiers and tries to aid the father. They then bring him home and start thinking of how they could leave without being hurt. Isabel asks her best friend if her family could come along with them to leave but his grandfather says that there's not enough fuel. She trades her two most valuable objects for fuel, just to ensure her family a trip away.

6. Mahmood and his brother were praying because Allah was calling everyone to prayer, Mahmood had been doing some homework before and eventually went back to it. Moments later, there was a vicious sound, the sound came closer, and closer and "bang" the whole front wall of their apartment fell down completely and destroyed everything.

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Pre-Reading Activity 2 Omar Nabih Yellow

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Pre-Reading Activity 2 Omar Nabih Yellow

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Chapter Summary - Isabel - Seif, Maia, Alessandro, and Rafael

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Chapter Summary - Isabel - Seif, Maia, Alessandro, and Rafael

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Isabel is a Cuban girl living in Cuba in 1994 with her family. Cuba at this time was not the best place to live as the soviet union had fallen. Because the Soviet Union had fallen, there was no more support for the country. This is because the Soviet Union used to buy their products and provide with day to day life necessities. A riot occurred when Isabel was playing her trumpet on the Malecon. This riot happened because the president of Cuba said that no one can leave the country. If someone was caught leaving they would be put in jail. However, the president announced that you no longer have to stay in Cuba. Therefore, Isabel and her family are going to leave the country.

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Chapter Summary - Mahmoud - Seif, Alessandro, Maia, and Rafael

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Chapter Summary - Mahmoud - Seif, Alessandro, Maia, and Rafael

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Mahmoud is a Syrian boy living in Syria. Syria was not a safe place to live in because of a war happening. Mahmoud wanted to be invisible and keep a low profile so he could stay under the radar. Unexpected fighter jet missiles were extremely common and so was death. Mahmoud has a brother whose name is Waleed. The war going on in Syria scared Mahmoud but it turned his brother, Waleed, into a robot. Syria had not always been like this though. Just four years ago, Syria had been a bright, happy place with excitement and entertainment. Until 2011, when the Arab Spring came to Syria. Mahmoud and Waleed had kept their heads down and tried to become invisible. Their attempt failed. Mahmoud and Waleed’s house had been striked by a missile. The missiles kept on coming and Mahmoud did everything in his power to protect Waleed. Once Mahmoud was gathered with all his family, his mother had started talking about moving to Germany like they had always planned, except this time, they would have to move quickly in order to survive.

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Isabel was a girl who lived in Havana Cuba where there was no food. Riots were very common in Havana. Once Isabel was out with her dad and grandfather and she was playing her trumpet hoping to gain some money. But as she was playing she heard a noise, a glass break. She lowered her trumpet but she didn't notice anything different but then boom a gunshot. The whole street full of people ran and screamed. Isabel rushed to find her dad and grandfather. She searched and pushed through the crowd until a hand grabbed her. It was her grandfather, Isabel was so glad to see him but she needed to find her dad. She quickly removed her hand from her grandfather's grip and ran and stood on top of a car. Until she saw her dad getting beaten up in the crowd. She rushed to him and as soon the cop saw her he froze and then raised his wooden baton. As he was going to hit Isabel a soldier grab the baton. It was Isabel's best friend's brother. He was also a cop and he told the other cop to leave them alone and they needed to go somewhere else. Isabel her dad and her grandfather headed home.

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Setting Josef - Berlin, Germany

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Chapter Summary Number One(Joseph) Yellow Group Members: Omar Nabih, Mohammed Al Kamil, Caroline Treadway, Safeya Ghoneim

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Chapter Summary Number One(Joseph) Yellow Group Members: Omar Nabih, Mohammed Al Kamil, Caroline Treadway, Safeya Ghoneim

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Joseph is a kid living Nazi Germany with his family until one day Nazis bust in and they started dragging his father because they told him to stop practicing law because he is Jewish they gave him a warning and Joseph tried fighting back but they shrugged him off after they left the family was in shock and they knew had to leave.

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Chapter Summary - Chapter Mahmoud - Joy, Revan, Bikram, Aman

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Chapter Summary - Chapter Mahmoud - Joy, Revan, Bikram, Aman

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Mahmoud was a young boy whose house in Syria, Aleppo, 2015. It got brutally destroyed by an unexpected missile strike. he was also bleeding caused by the missile strike. He and his family packed all of their valuables and quickly fled to turkey by car. He was agitated to flee his country because it was his home, and he had gotten a sudden change. They also left the country because of other violent crises and could not take all of the violence.

Quote - "you’re bleeding" (Gratz, p.g 50) It highlights how dangerous this situation was.

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Chapter Summary - Mahmoud - Emir, Ali, Rayan, Marcos RED

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Chapter Summary - Mahmoud - Emir, Ali, Rayan, Marcos RED

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Mahmoud was a young boy who lived in the war-torn streets of Aleppo, Syria. However, when his apartment was hit by a missile strike, he was forced to flee his country of Syria, and flee to Turkey. Mahmoud and his family were forced to leave their precious valuables behind, and live on the run.

Quote- "Only the TV wasn’t there anymore. It had fallen five stories to the ground below, along with the outside wall. And Waleed was centimeters from joining them both "- Gratz, Page #31- This quote proves how dangerous the situation in the house was after the missile strike.

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Chapter summary number 2 ( Mahmoud) Yellow Group Members: Omar Nabih, Mohammed Al Kamil, Caroline Treadway, Safeya Ghoneim

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Chapter summary number 2 ( Mahmoud) Yellow Group Members: Omar Nabih, Mohammed Al Kamil, Caroline Treadway, Safeya Ghoneim

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Mahmoud is a kid who grew up in Syria. Just recently his family's home was blown up by a missile strike so his family decided to flee Syria to greece. They get to the border and 2 guards from the border ask them to drop them off somewhere, on the way people started shooting at there car, one of the soldiers gets shot in the head and dies, the other makes it out. They get, Mahmoud's little brother almost dies. They are forced to leave their resources and run for the border. They made it to the border to Turkey and found themselves in a refugee camp getting a few things. A man came to them offering to smuggle them onto a boat to Greece. Getting to Greece is a goal of theirs, but they need to think about it, as it is risky. They have a day until the boat gets there. They must make a choice soon

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Mahmoud is a kind, loving, and dedicated brother and son. he shows true signs of commodity in the moments when everything goes wrong.

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Based on the book, we can infer that Mahmoud is a very kept-to-self and selfless person. We know this because the author said "His

shoulder ached and his chest still seared with every hard, desperate breath, but the only thing that

mattered now was getting to his mother. His sister. His brother.

Mahmoud pulled himself up out of the rubble and saw the building across the street in raw

daylight, like he was standing in midair beside it." this shows that the reader can infer that Mahmoud was barely living but all he could think about was saving and knowing his family was okay. We know that Mahmoud's character is very caring and selfless. This was an indirect characterization the author didn't want to say Mahmoud was selfless he wanted to show the reader he wanted the reader to find out Mahmoud's personality throughout the book.

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The Syrian war-mahmoud