1. Analyzing the Significance of the Novel’s Title:
Connecting the Universal Refugee Experience to Inside Out & Back Again, Part 2

2. Today’s objective
I can use the strongest evidence from the novel and from the informational text to support my answers to questions.

3. Jigsaw Part 1: Reread Paragraphs 2 and 3 of “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison” and Connect to a Poem from the Novel with Text-Dependent Questions
Please get into your 1-4 groups and Take out your novel Inside Out & Back Again as well as your article “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison.”
Look at paragraphs 2 and 3 of the section “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison.” (next slide)

4. Look and shout out
Look at the second sentence in Paragraph 2: “How well children adapt is influenced by several factors, including age at arrival, severity of previous traumatic events, family background, individual resiliency, and reception by the host community and society.”
Shout out!!
Which factors help Ha adapt successfully in Alabama? How does she grow as a person as a result?

5. Directions 1
Now look at “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison”: Paragraphs 2 and 3 Text-Dependent Questions, Part B.
today, just like a few lessons ago, you are going to use these questions and make notes to dig deeper into Paragraphs 2 and 3 to better understand the process of adaptation faced by refugee and immigrant children.
You are going to relate challenges faced by the real-life children to Ha’s experiences when she arrives in Alabama

6. Directions 2
You will work in pairs. Each pair will be assigned one poem from the novel to connect to the real-life refugee experiences in “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison.”
Look at the question sheet. Look at the two columns in which students are to record answers.
one column is for answers from the informational text and the other is for details from your assigned poem.

7. Directions 3 In your 1-4 groups number yourself 1-3:
Number ones move to the number 1 table and read the number 1 poem. Number 2 & 3 do the same.
1. Neighbors” (page 162)
2. Laugh Back” (page 147)
3. NOW!” (page 217)

8. Directions 4 directions:
1. Reread Paragraphs 2 and 3 of “Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparison.”
2. Think about the questions.
3. Discuss your thinking with your partner.
4. Then write your thinking down in the center column.
5. On your own, reread your pair’s assigned poem.
6. With your partner, discuss your thinking about the key details in the poem.
7. Then write your thinking down in the right-hand column.
ignore the synthesis question at the bottom of the form for now; you will come back to this in the second part of the Jigsaw.

9. Jigsaw Part 2: Group Discussion to Share Answers and Discuss a Synthesis Question (15 minutes)
Refocus whole group. You will now share with your 1-4 group.
take your Text-Dependent Questions, Part B handout with you.
Take about 5 minutes to share within your groups.
Record new evidence from other poems on your question sheets.
be sure that you discuss and record an answer to the synthesis question at the bottom of your Text-Dependent Questions, Part B handout
Share out!!

10. Homework
for the end of unit assessment, you are going to be writing about how the novel’s title, Inside Out & Back Again, relates to the universal refugee experience of fleeing and finding home, using Ha as an example. In order to describe how Ha turns “inside out” and “back again,” you first need to describe who she was before. Reread pages 1–17 and collect the strongest evidence you can find to answer this question: Who was Ha before she was forced to flee her home?