4. How do the parents in each of these families change in the course of their journeys? Compare the fathers and mothers of Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud, and discuss the ways that events in each story shape their responses to their situation. CCSS.RL.4–7.1, 3 5. Compare the method of travel for each of these refugee families.
The Journey for Parents. It can be a shock to learn a child is LGBTQ and there are definite stages most parents experience. The stages below do not always happen in order, or just once, and some may not occur at all. Some stages pass quickly, others slowly. These stages represent the struggle to accept an enormous change in your family.
Mar 04, 2022 · 4. How do the parents in each of these families change in the course of their journeys? Compare the fathers and mothers of Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud, and discuss the ways that events in each story shape their responses to their situation. 5. Compare the method of travel for each of these refugee families.
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Mahmoud gets separated from a family member along the way and has to learn how to stay strong for his family. Mahmoud needs to learn how to get through the struggles of his treacherous journey to a better life, and that sometimes means making himself heard and no longer invisible.
Explanation and Analysis: Josef had died so Ruthie could live, and one day welcome Mahmoud and his family into her house.
Josef sacrifices himself in order to relieve his mother from the burden of this choice and to save his little sister Ruthie from the concentration camps. Josef later dies in the camps, along with his mother.
Despite her grief, Isabel is able to persevere and guide her family to reach the shores of Miami. At the end of the book, Isabel is able to reconnect with her heritage when her uncle Guillermo gives her a new trumpet, and Isabel is finally able to count clave.
Mahmoud Bishara is a twelve-year-old boy who lives in Aleppo, Syria in 2015. For the last few years, there has been a war in his country between the Syrian government, rebels, the Soviets, the United States and several other factions.
They stay in the home of an older Jewish German couple, and the woman turns out to be Ruthie Landau, Josef's sister. She tells Mahmoud how Josef had offered himself to be taken, and she had survived the war. The novel ends with Mahmoud feeling at home.
Josef Landau is a 12-year-old Jewish boy living in Germany in 1938. Isabelle Fernandez is also 12, but she lives in Cuba in 1994. Mahmoud Bishara, 12, lives in Aleppo, Syria, in 2015.Jan 30, 2019
Josef / Berlin, Germany-1938 Josef is dragged from his bed and thrown on the floor next to his six-year-old sister, Ruth. Josef's father is arrested for being Jewish and practicing law. When Josef argues, the Nazis threaten to take him to a concentration camp.
In Josef's story, his father, Aaron, chooses to commit suicide by jumping overboard and drowning because he has lost all hope in life and believes that this is a better alternative than being sent back to Germany. Thus, water represents the futility of continuing on in the midst of hardship.
They cuffed them, beat them with a stick, and separated them from their families. They throw a party, because England, Belgium, Holland and France decide to divide the refugees among them! The end up in France. No matter where Josef and his family go what conflict can't they escape?
six years oldJosef's younger sister, who is six years old when they board the St. Louis to escape Nazi Germany.
Mahmoud and his family were in line waiting at the border to gain admission into Turkey, near the city of Kilis. What did most Syrian families carry with them in line and how were they dressed? They carried everything they had, in suitcases and duffel bags but most stuffed into pillow cases and trashbags.
We fear being judged and losing our friends, family, and faith community. We fear the hatred, violence, and discrimination our children may encounter and endure. All of these are realistic possibilities for both parent and child, which makes it even more important to support each other and navigate the changes together.
Grief. Grief is sadness about a loss. We may grieve the loss of the child we “knew” and their hoped for future. We mourn the disappearance of the life we envisioned for them. It takes time to grieve the death of the dreams for our child that center around heterosexual life events.
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The Change Journey is a process that treats people like people, not like machines.
Yogi Berra once said “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” Too many organizations start change without truly understanding their destination. It’s better to answer the fundamental questions before launching the process:
Good navigators constantly take stock of the terrain, scan for warning signs, and map out new and better routes. We can do the same when it comes to change. We can map our organizational landscapes, identifying informal leaders who can help, finding pockets of potential resistance, and discovering teams that have already embarked on the journey.
And we open ourselves up to the possibility of discovery, innovation, and unexpected breakthroughs. Change still isn’t easy. But if we’re on a Change Journey, it can be better.
Other sound change processes are merger, split, loss, syncope, apocope, prothesis, and epenthesis. Merger and split can be seen as the mirror image of each other. A merger that is currently expanding over much of the United States is the merger between "short o" and "long open o".
Sound change. All aspects of language change, and a great deal is know about general mechanisms and historical details of changes at all levels of linguistic analysis. However, a special and conspicuous success has been achieved in modeling changes in phonological systems, traditionally called sound change.
Language contact: Migration, conquest and trade bring speakers of one language into contact with speakers of another language. Some individuals will become fully bilingual as children, while others learn a second language more or less well as adults.
Language is always changing. We've seen that language changes across space and across social group. Language also varies across time. Generation by generation, pronunciations evolve, new words are borrowed or invented, the meaning of old words drifts, and morphology develops or decays. The rate of change varies, ...