Starting a unit or lesson with the key vocabulary aids in overall comprehension and retention. In this activity, students will create a storyboard that defines and illustrates key vocabulary found in the book Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga. Students will create a spider map of 3-5 terms at the teachers discretion. Each cell will contain a term or allusion, its definition or description, and an appropriate illustration.
Storyboard Text
MARHABA
"Marhaba, Jude!"
ALI BABA'S
MUEZZIN
Allahu Akbar . . .!
HABIBTI
"Be brave, habibti!"
Arabic for "hello"
"Marhaba, Layla!"
A man who calls Muslims to prayer from the minaret of a mosque. In the context of the book, Jude is referring to the speaker whose voice she hears outside her window early in the morning.