Multicultural Monday – March 1, 2021

When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

Picture a 4-year-old living through a civil war in Somalia:

  • Witness father being killed
  • Separated from your mother and sisters
  • Nonverbal younger brother is all you have left
  • Running for your life into the African bush, avoiding snakes, predators, big cats
  • Ending up in a refugee camp

Now, imagine that same boy at 12 years of age:

  • Caring for his brother
  • Trying to get an education
  • Playing soccer with a plastic bag
  • Having only one pair of clothes
  • Eating only 1 or 2 meals per day
  • Having little to no medicine

This is the story of Omar and his brother Hussan, as they try to survive and get out of the Ifo refugee camp, known by refugees as an “open prison”, in DaDaab, Kenya.

Do both brothers survive this ordeal?

Is their mother still alive?

Is there a future for Omar?

Read the book to find out!

“It was a dark and stormy night…”

Photo by Seatizen.co on Pexels.com

(Ok, so it was not dark, nor stormy, and probably not a night.

I just love A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle!)

I have had this idea to start a blog for some time now, and just never really knew how to do it and why anybody would want to read anything that I have to say. During the pandemic I have been posting more and more online, trying to share sites, resources, books, and fun activities to the students in my building, as well as to anyone else who would listen to me.

It’s difficult to share information within the confines of my school district. We are not permitted to have social media accounts in which to share information to parents and/or students. Given that and the fact that others have been taking an interest in my personal posts, I decided to give blogging a try, and see where it leads me.

In this blog I will be sharing video book trailers that I create, informational videos on various holidays/themes, book reviews, book suggestions, and, well…everything else I want to share that could be a resource.

Thank you for taking to time to join me in this narrative. Hopefully this turns into something great.