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Preview of Threads from the Refugee Crisis

Explore the key questions and important words to consider before reading about the refugee crisis in Calais, France. Discover the Calais Jungle and Dunkirk camps, as well as the impact of the crisis. This preview also introduces the use of graphic novels as a tool for enhancing reading skills.

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Preview of Threads from the Refugee Crisis

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  1. Preview ofThreads from the Refugee Crisis

  2. What are the two questions to ask before reading a text? • What is this about? • What do I already know about this topic?

  3. A Look at Important Words • REFUGE – • What does this mean? • What part of speech is it? • REFUGEE – • Can you think of other words that end in –EE? What does this ending mean? • What is a refugee? The 1951 United Nations’ Refugee Convention defines a refugee as a person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality.” • What do you know about refugees? What is the “refugee crisis?”

  4. The Refugee Crisis

  5. The Setting: Calais, France https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33757402

  6. The Calais Jungle https://news.sky.com/story/why-is-the-calais-jungle-being-destroyed-your-questions-answered-10630389

  7. Another Look …. https://www.google.com/search?q=Calais+jungle+map&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihgpCNiZDjAhXDrFkKHWErDjAQ7Al6BAgHEB0&biw=1280&bih=592#imgrc=y2VJ7m8kEJT8OM:

  8. A Closer Look https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/646746/Calais-Jungle-Migrant-camp-Migrants-Refugees-France-Eviction-Refugees-French-police

  9. And the “Sister Camp” at Dunkirk https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-dunkirk-project-crisis-aid-for-refugee-camp

  10. More information about the “Jungle” https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/europe/calais-jungle-migrant-camp-explainer/index.html

  11. Using Threads in ESOL 054 Students will read this book over the next 10 weeks on their own and complete the following assignments/assessments: • Guide questions (comprehension questions) for each chapter • A total of 3 online journals or discussion boards • An online quiz after every 3 weeks • Group presentations on themes from the novel

  12. Remember that it is important to know something about the author: • Who is the author/artist of Threads? • How can you find out information about the author? • What do we know about her? • Where is she in this novel? What does she look like?

  13. Introduction to Graphic Novels Questions to Consider: • How is Threads similar to other books you are using this semester (or have used in school)? How is it different? • Who has read a graphic novel before? • What do you anticipate from your experience reading this? Do you think it will be easier than other types of books? Why or why not? Do you think your reading experience will be different than reading other books? How?

  14. How to Read a Graphic Novel https://www.buffalolib.org/sites/default/files/get-graphic/resources/HowtoReadaGraphicNovel.pdf

  15. How can reading a graphic novel strengthen your reading skills? Example: • Look at the bottom panel on page 12 and guess the meaning of: • Supplication • Succour • Look at the pictures and consider the context when figuring out vocabulary.

  16. Activity Skim through the book and choose a picture that stands out to you. Read that page. Do a free-write on why you chose this picture and how you think it might fit in with the themes of the whole book. Share the picture with your small group.

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