Logan Refugee by Logan Johnson https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr Refugee Unit 2018-2019 en-us 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC 2025-03-23 02:56:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Notice & Note: Memory Moment ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863650 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863650 Notice & Note: Memory Moment Video ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863651 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863651 Exit Ticket 3/13 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863652 What do you think unalienable means? 

-DO NOT look it up in the dictionary. It's not about getting it right, it's about doing the thinking work! 

-Describe what clues in the text helped you figure out its meaning. 

-Cite evidence from the text (exact words). ]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863652 3/13 Homework ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863653 1) Read the back of the "Universal Human Rights". 

2) Complete one question REALLY well. It needs to include a claim, evidence, and reasoning. 
*Use a separate sheet of paper if you need to! ]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863653 Exit Ticket 3/11 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863655 Why do you think the author included the flashback in Chapter 2? What does it add/reveal? ]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863655 Chapter 1 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863657 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863657 Chapter 2 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863660 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863660 Chapter 3 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863661 Mahmoud remembers the Arab Spring and the start of the Syrian Civil War. He also decides against helping a boy who is being beat up in an alley.]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863661 Chapter 4 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863662 Josef is on a train to Hamburg with his family. They plan to escape to Cuba, as they are Jews and oppressed by 🤬 Germany. Josef buys a newspaper and candy at a stand on the train without his armband. However, the armband is discovered and is found by a Hitler Youth.]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863662 Chapter 5 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863663 Isabel encounters a riot in Havana protesting the regime of Fidel Castro, in which her father and grandfather participate. Her father is almost arrested for his participation. As a result, the family must flee Cuba.]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863663 Chapter 6 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863665 Right after afternoon prayer, Mahmoud's neighborhood is hit by a missile. Mahmoud is injured and the wall of their apartment building is destroyed. ]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863665 Chapter 7 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863667 Josef is brought back to the Jewish car by the Hitler Youth, and the family proceeds to Hamburg. In Hamburg, they reunite with Josef's father, Aaron Landau, who has been scarred by his time in the camp. They board the ship and start their journey across the Atlantic]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863667 3/11 Homework: Vocabulary Words for 3/11-3/15 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863669 Complete the posts for the five words below. The posts have already been made for you. Your posts need to include: 
1. Dictionary definition 
2. Sentence from the book 
3. Your own sentence using the word
4. An image/picture that helps you remember the MEANING of the word. 

*There is an example post below.

§ Chapter 1 – Dismissive (p.4)
§ Chapter 2 – Intently (p.11)
§ Chapter 3 – Indignation (p.17)
§ Chapter 4 – Inferior (p.23)
§ Chapter 5 – Turmoil (p.28)

*Use the link below to get to the words in the sentences from the book. 

]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863669 Example Vocabulary Post ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863670
  • Word: Synagogue
  • Dictionary definition: A building where Jewish people meet for religious worship.
  • Sentence from the book: "Other Jewish homes and businesses and synagogues were destroyed all over Germany," pg. 5
  • My sentence: When I was in middle school, my best friend went to her synagogue every Friday for her Jewish service. 


    • ]]>     2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863670     Chapter 1: Dismissive ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863671 Refusing to consider someone or something seriously. "The Brownshirt scowled at the noise and gave the men carrying Aaron Landau a dismissive wave." The employees at the diner were dismissive of their distressed customers.

    ]]>     2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863671     Chapter 2: Intently ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863672 Giving careful attention to something so that you think about nothing else. "She listened now, intently, trying to hear the heartbeat of Cuba in her own music." John listened intently to the man's safety advice presentation.]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863672 Chapter 3: Indignation ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863675 Feelings of anger and surprise because you feel insulted or unfairly treated. "Mahmoud watched as these two boys attacked the boy with the bread, a boy he didn’t even know. He felt the stirrings of indignation, of anger, of sympathy." John felt a wave of indignation after a group of youths pointed out his feminine hips.]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863675 Chapter 4: Inferior ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863676 Not good, or not as good as someone or something else. "After Herr Meier had called him in front of the class to show how Jews were inferior to real Germans, Josef had returned to his seat next to Klaus..." All other parties before were greatly inferior to the one held by Jake McNamara.]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863676 Chapter 5: Turmoil ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863678 A state of confusion, excitement, or anxiety. "In all the turmoil, a policeman caught up with her father and grabbed him by the arm." The studio was thrown into turmoil when one of the musicians could not be found.]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863678 Warm-Up 3/13 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863679 Share your Padlet with Ms. Mac. 
    1) Click on the Share button at the top of the web page. 

    2) Change the setting to Public.
     
    3) Click "Share/Export/Embed". 

    4) Click "Copy link to this Padlet".
     
    5) Paste your link to the assignment on Google Classroom. Do not post it as a comment, rather as an assignment submission. 

    ]]>     2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863679     Warm-Up 3/11 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863681 Create a Padlet. ]]> 2019-03-13 13:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/340863681 Warm-Up 3/15 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/341732743 Copy this post to YOUR padlet, and then answer the question below. 

    What 4 things should we consider significant events when reading a narrative? ]]>     2019-03-15 13:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/341732743     The Lines We Cross ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/343456479 2019-03-20 17:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/343456479 Chapter 8 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344219728 Isabel's dad decides he must leave Cuba. Lito protests. Then, Castro appears on television and announces that all obstacles to leaving Cuba will be removed. Isabel says that the whole family should escape together, and she acquires a makeshift boat and gasoline for the journey.]]> 2019-03-22 14:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344219728 Chapter 9 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344221933 Mahmoud, Waleed, and their mom escape their collapsing apartment building. Their dad arrives and plans for them to flee Aleppo for Germany, who is accepting refugees.]]> 2019-03-22 14:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344221933 Warm-Up 3/25 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344788300 It is necessary to have legal documents like the Bill of Rights and the Universal Human Rights so that people's fundamental human rights are not encroached upon and everyone is equal and not oppressed.]]> 2019-03-25 12:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344788300 Chapter 10 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344806325 Josef and Ruthie make friends and overall enjoy their time on the MS St Louis without antisemitism and discrimination.]]> 2019-03-25 13:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344806325 Chapter 11 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344808073 Isabel's family goes to the beach to launch their boat, where they find many other families doing the same. As they leave, the Castillos' (the family traveling with them) son and his girlfriend joins them. The two are police officers, and are shot at for deserting duty.

    ]]>     2019-03-25 13:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/344808073     Chapter 12 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/345250523 On their way to Turkey, Mahmoud's family encounters a group of soldiers, who want to be dropped off somewhere to the south. However, a spray of gunfire hits the car.]]> 2019-03-26 13:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/345250523 Chapter 13 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/345252373 Josef has his bar mitzvah on the ship. He overhears some stewards discussing the possibility that Cuba will not accept the 900 Jewish refugees on the ship.]]> 2019-03-26 13:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/345252373 Chapter 14 Significant Eve ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347167623 Isabel's family and the Castillos are having some fun on the bo]]> 2019-04-01 13:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347167623 Chapter 15 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347168633 Mahmoud's family arrives at a refugee camp in Turkey after miles of walking through Syria, but his dad tells them they have to leave for Greece.]]> 2019-04-01 13:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347168633 Chapter 15 ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347168656 2019-04-01 13:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347168656 Chapter 16 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347169532 Josef goes on a tour of the bridge and engine room of the ship. The captain assures Josef that they will get to Cuba. In the engine room, the group encounters antisemitic workers singing 🤬 songs.]]> 2019-04-01 13:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347169532 Chapter 17 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347170794 Isabel's family and the Castillos are trying to fix the engine. Lito reveals he has a brother in the States, expresses his dissatisfaction with them losing the "soul" of Cuba, expresses his annoyance at Isabel's dad for having no plan, and expresses his wish that they would return to Cuba. Then a big tanker shows up.]]> 2019-04-01 13:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347170794 Chapter 18 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347616081 Mahmoud's family arrives in Izmir. However, the boat will not be ready until the next day, and all hotels are full. Mahmoud finds a boy offering a place to stay -- an abandoned shopping mall filled with squatters]]> 2019-04-02 13:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347616081 Chapter 19 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347617139 Josef's father is increasingly paranoid, thinking that the ship is slowing down to return to Germany. Josef explains to him that the ship is slowing for a funeral for an elderly passenger. Josef and his father attend the funeral, where the antisemitic 🤬 supporter steward insists on the 🤬 flag being on the coffin. The captain is against this and threatens him with punishment. The funeral continues and the coffin is dropped into the Atlantic.]]> 2019-04-02 13:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/347617139 Book Club Question ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/348070606 The anti-immigrant organization Aussie Values has power over popular opinion that comes from its visibility.]]> 2019-04-03 13:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/348070606 Chapter 20 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/348920484 The tanker approaches the small boat, which is able to get its motor started and speeds out of the way just in time. However, Señor Castillo falls out of the boat, and Isabel jumps in to rescue him.]]> 2019-04-05 13:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/348920484 Chapter 21 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/348921337 Mahmoud's family is told that the boat will arrive "tomorrow" for a week. On their latest unsuccessful attempt, they find that the abandoned shopping mall is demanding the squatters pay rent. It is too expensive, so Mahmoud's family tries to find another place to stay. Mahmoud tries catching the attention of passing motorists, and an old man sees them and stops. The old man offers to take them to see if the boat had arrived, and if it doesn't arrive, he says they can stay in his car dealership. A boat is there for them.]]> 2019-04-05 13:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/348921337 Chapter 22 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/349487945 One day from arriving in Cuba, a party is thrown on the St Louis. At breakfast the next morning, the ship stops in the Havana harbor for a quarantine. A Cuban officer orders an examination of everyone on the ship. Josef's father is extremely nervous and thinks this will be a 🤬 roundup like at Dachau. Josef is worried that his father's condition will lead to them being denied entry into Havana. During the examination, Josef's father draws attention due to his nerves, so Josef slaps him across the face so he'll stop. He does, and the Cuban officer looks over him without a thought. However, it is then announced that they will only be able to leave the ship "tomorrow."]]> 2019-04-08 13:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/349487945 Chapter 23 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/349492475 Isabel is able to rescue Señor Castillo from the ocean and return him to the boat. He almost drowns. Then Lito announces that a storm is coming. ]]> 2019-04-08 13:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/349492475 What is similar between the stories so far? ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/349495703 I noticed that some locations play a part in more than one story - Mahmoud's family wants to escape to Germany in 2015, while Josef's family is fleeing Germany and escaping to Cuba in 1939, and Isabel's family is escaping Cuba in 1994..]]> 2019-04-08 13:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/349495703 Chapter 24 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/351645257 Mahmoud's family boards the crowded "boat" (really a dinghy raft) and they set out for the Greek island of Lesbos. A storm arrives, a man sees rocks, and Mahmoud tumbles into the sea.]]> 2019-04-15 13:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/351645257 Chapter 25 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/351647275 Three days pass with the ship still anchored in harbor, with no one allowed to leave. The Cubans keep saying that they'll be able to disembark "tomorrow." Meanwhile, British and French ships disembark in the harbor as the St Louis waits. The ship's firemen take the unauthorized role of policing the Jews on the ship, and a group of them captures Josef and orders him to take them to his cabin. Josef lets them in and they ransack the place due to them being Jewish. Josef's dad feels betrayed and lied to, as Josef told him that if he'd be silent the Nazis would not come back to hurt him.]]> 2019-04-15 13:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/351647275 Chapter 32 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/357256106 The boat starts breaking apart and they frantically try to bail it out. Then the boat erupts into a fight betweeon the aorents. Then AMamr a helps them cla d0wn and they decide that if two people swoom alongside the bot, the bost mifht not sink a strhbj.]]> 2019-05-06 16:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/357256106 Chapter 33 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/357257835 Mahmoud hears a ship and holds out his phone in an attempt to catch their attention. He does, and the ship moves towards them. It is a Greek Coast Guard ship, and it carries Mahmoud's dad and Waleed. Mahmoud and his mother board the rescue boat, which is filled with many other refugees. The refugees are taken to Lesbos]]> 2019-05-06 16:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/357257835 Chapter 42 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/360351038 - Taxi driver demands money from Mahmoud's family at gunpoint
    - Muhmoud's family gives him the money
    - They are dropped off in Serbia
    - They walk to the heavily-defended Hungarian border
    - The refugees are hit with tear gas after they try to stampede across the border]]>     2019-05-15 14:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/360351038     Chapter 33 Significant Events ljohnson3063 https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/360352101 - Josef agrees to help Pozner and his men mutiny
    - They attempt mutiny
    - The captain threatens them
    - The captain agrees to do everything he can to get them to England
    - Josef does not want to go back to Europe and storms off]]>     2019-05-15 14:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson3063/halqorbnecgr/wish/360352101