Everything you need to understand or teach Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo.
Saifa Elhillo’s young adult novel Home is Not a Country tells the story of Nima, a 15-year-old girl to a single mother who immigrated to America. Nima feels like an outsider - whether in her Arabic speaking community or in the white American world. She longs to belong somewhere, and longs to be more beautiful and graceful. Her longing takes the form of the jinn Yasmeen - the alternative name her mother did not name her. With Yasmeen, Nima takes a trip into the past to discover the roots of her family and her name. This novel explores the two main questions of - where is home, and do we earn our names or embody them?
Home Is Not a Country Lesson Plans contain 128 pages of teaching material, including:
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