Other Words for Home Setting
Öykü Açıklama
The setting of a story is the all important time and place. Jude in Other Words for Home lives in Syria with her family but then emigrates to the United States as a refugee from the Syrian Civil War. Students can use a setting map to illustrate the different settings in the book and write a short description of each time and place in the description box.
Öykü Penceresi Metni
- SETTING in Other Words for Home
- SYRIA
- Coastal towns in Syria such as Latakia
- MEDITERRANEAN SEA
- PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
- CYPRUS
- ISRAEL
- LEBANON
- TURKEY
- JORDAN
- BLACK SEA
- Damascus
- SYRIA
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- Aleppo
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- IRAQ
- GEORGIA
- ARMENIA
- RUSSIA
- AZERBAIJAN
- IRAN
- CASPIANSEA
- UNITED STATES
- Cincinnati
- OHIO
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- DISTANCE FROM HOME TO HOME
- 6,058 mi
- MODERN DAY -SYRIAN CIVIL WAR (2011- __ )
- EGYPT
- Other Words from Home begins on a coastal town in Syria. Jude lives with her mother, father, and brother in a beautiful seaside town that typically hosts many tourists.
- RED SEA
- SAUDI ARABIA
- KUWAIT
- PERSIAN GULF
- As the Syrian Civil war threatens to get worse and worse, Jude's family decides that for their safety, Jude and her pregnant mother must flee to the United States. Jude and her mother move in with their Uncle Mazin, his wife, Aunt Michelle, and daughter Sarah in a historic section of Cincinnati, Ohio called Clifton.
- The journey from Syria to the United States is a long one - 6,058 miles! Jude's mother tells her how lucky they are to have been able to come when they did. As the war progresses and there are many other refugees trying to flee, they find that it is not as easy to enter the United States.
- The story is set in modern day. The Syrian Civil War began in March 2011 when pro-democracy protests erupted around the country in an effort to unseat Bashar Al Assad's repressive regime. The war continues as of this writing in May 2021.
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