AMIR

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AMIR

• A Harvest Festival of Immigrants Uniting as a
  Community

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The story Amir comes from a book called
Seedfolks.
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PAUL FLEISCHMAN

• AUTHOR OF SEEDFOLKS

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Amir is an immigrant from India.
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This is the Indian flag.
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Amir is an immigrant who moves to Cleveland, Ohio.
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Amirs neighborhood is made up of brick apartment
buildings like this one
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Amir had always heard that Polish men were tough
steelworkers and that the women cooked a lot of
cabbage.
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Amir owns a fabric store.
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Amir grows eggplant, onions, carrots and
cauliflower in the community garden.

• EGGPLANT
• CAULIFLOWER

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Amirs neighbors work together to clean the
garden when someone dumps tires into it.
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Amir meets a Polish woman.

• Imagine this is the Polish woman Amir befriends
  in the garden.

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The woman doesnt pull carrots from her
over-crowded garden because it reminds her of
what Nazis did to Polish Jews in concentration
camps.

• ROW OF CARROTS ROW OF POLISH PRISONERS

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Nazis would send Polish Jews to death camps like
this one
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Those who were not killed would end up like this
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Amir and his friends build a brick barbecue like
this one
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The friends exchange their harvest like squash
and pumpkins and celebrate during their harvest
festival.