For many Syrian children, there's no school By Associated Press, adapted by Newsela staff
In this picture taken on March 12, 2014, a Syrian girl (foreground) carries her brother as she walks between tents with other children (background) on their way to a makeshift school at their refugee camp in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Majdal Anjar, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon. Photo: AP Photo/Hussein Malla.
Blog Assignment:
What is the main idea of the article?
List 3 supporting details.
How would you feel if you were 13 year old Anas? You must provide evidence.
The Syrians are kind of homeless because their was a war in their country and they had to leave so that wont get killed in the war without armed stuff. They left the country to find a new home until the war ended they had to make their own schools because the war took over the schools and turned them into bases. One of the Syrian familes, mad a school without desks and blackboards, the only thing they have is some paper and some crayons
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daniel the 100 king
3/26/2014 12:34:05 am
they r kinda homeless because crimeanales have been bombing and sooting some peple lost ther lives 2 portect ther sons dauter and wife
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Jhon the MC er
3/26/2014 12:26:04 am
the main idea is that due to the war in syiria the kids cant go to school and a reason is that bullets could be flying and that heavy bomber could bomb schools also this is over but remember the chemical weopons atacck they used sarin gas which could kill a person with one breath in a few minutes to 1 hour and so I think their having no school or having it in tents because theyre trying to keep the children safe alrady 10,000 inoasnt children have died in this civil war and threr trying to prevent that number from climing.
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Mrs. Pasculli
3/26/2014 12:30:02 am
Jhon, answer that last question, how would you feel if you were 13 year old Anas?
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Geoge A
3/26/2014 12:30:09 am
I had family in Syria who were scared because of the civil war against Russia. My cousins said that they couldn't go to school and they heard everything. They heard the bombing and the guns shooting. Though my family survived and there trying to come to America
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Alper Can
3/26/2014 12:30:59 am
The main idea is that the thirteenth girl years old left Sryia three years ago.Some people bombed Sryia because that they were pore people.In Syria people were very pore there.The Syria people had very old,and very rusty.If I was in Annas place I would be very anxous.Why was there a war in Syria?
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James
3/26/2014 12:32:33 am
The main idea is that Syria children can't go to school. Instead, they have tent schools. Also, they are homeless, so they can't go to school. In Syria, there was a war, so they had to escape.
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alyssa
3/26/2014 12:38:11 am
I argee with you james chun I think they shouldn't escape they should just run away
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alyssa
3/26/2014 12:34:12 am
How would you feel if you lived backthen where they had NO SCHOOL.the main idea is that backthen that people didn't have school. I had a connection with my parents .the bad thing is that I DONT KNOW what is the connection but once she told me she had a connection I would feel scared mad, and sad.clearly I am sad and I feel bad at those people backthen that they had NO SCHOOL to learn.
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Jhon The Mc Professinal
3/26/2014 12:34:32 am
If I were 13 year old anas I would feel depreesed to see so many of y frinds dead 10000 of them and teaching in tents instead of comfy school I would feel sad ad alittle mad
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ALISA <3 O_o
3/26/2014 12:34:54 am
The main idea of this article is that Syrian children don't have schools because of the war outside. If I was Anas I would feel very cold because he is outside in bare feet and has school in a tent. I feel very bad for Anas because he is in the middle of war and it is still happening. I wonder why the war is going on....... Why is there a war? What happened for them to start a war? At least there is pencils and other materials to learn, but there is a war still.......
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Alper Can
3/26/2014 12:35:55 am
Alyssa there was not even school in Syria.
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Jhon
3/26/2014 12:37:33 am
Thre was but ther no longer is ,alper
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Sadie
3/26/2014 12:37:49 am
The main idea is Syria children can go to school. One reason is because they have no supplies but only papers. Second reason is students cannot get education and they have lost all they have in Syria. I would be sad and not have any education.
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hdanielmota
3/26/2014 12:38:21 am
why would the crimanales attak and hurt peple?????????
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Yamilex XD
3/26/2014 12:38:29 am
the main idea of this article was that in Syrian that there was a war in the state. for example most people in Syrian that there were a lot of kids getting injured. if anas I would feel really cold and sick because she was bear foot. i would fell cold because anas was bear foot as I said.
I would be scared if I was him because there was a war during the war. I would be scared also because I would've go injured if I was anas . that I show I would feel is I was a 13 year olds . here is a question. why is there a war in Syria? why do the kids in Syria have no school? what is difer from here than in Syria? what happen to anas. do student got to school in Syria?
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Dren Sapunxhiu
3/26/2014 12:39:30 am
The main idea is that many Syrian war victims fled to Lebanon for a good education. They had to go to a foreign country because the Syrian classrooms were either bombed or turned to army bases. They couldn't go to school in a war zone because they could probably get killed by the army. Plus, the children's education needs to continue unless they don't go to school. I'd feel upset if I were Anas because I was Syrian, which means that me and my family lost everything to the Syrian Civil War.
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Amy J
3/26/2014 12:39:30 am
I think the main idea is that the kids in Syria go to school in very little places and tent.There stuff is all gone from the war in Syria and everything they owned.The people only teach up to 5-15.I would feel sad that I lost everything I owned.When my dad was little his mom and sister and brothers were during a very dangerous and my great grand father have to save them and take them to New York City and live with there friend until they had enough money to buy a house because they lost everything.
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Ms. Seabold
3/26/2014 12:39:42 am
I think that all children should have the advantage of going to school because it is an investment in their future.
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Esther ^-^
3/26/2014 12:40:10 am
The main idea is that the Syrian children are suffering because of the deadly war and cant go to school because of the deadly war too. They say that the suffering of the children is especially bad. Also , they go hungry and sick and that makes the childrens growth slow.In addition , a lack of schooling stops their education and the bloody war sears deep psychological scars. If I was the 13 yaer old boy id be a gonner because I`m a girl and I would have so much suffering because a girl is weaker than a boy...$_$
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victor
3/26/2014 12:40:34 am
the main idea is kid's that can't go to school. I would be to grown up.
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DANA
3/26/2014 12:40:55 am
The main idea is that children from Syrian cant get their education because of the war that's going on. Sadly 10,000 children were killed because of this. Children weren't allowed to go to some of their classrooms because solders use those rooms now to rest for more war. And if I was a forteen year old their ill be super scared because of all the war.
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Kelly W
3/26/2014 12:41:03 am
Do you want to know what the main idea is?The main idea is that Syiran people don't have any school.Anas didn't have any school. Also,people don't do it in Syira,too.Finally,when my mom went to Syira she didt have no school.Ithink it is sad.
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eliamlee
3/26/2014 12:41:14 am
That Anas went to a different is the main idea. In Syria , his school was bombed. Others are used as shelters or turned into places for soldiers to sleep. His country was in the middle of a terrible war. If my town is in a war if I am 13 I will go to a different place to be safe.
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Brandon Atiencia
3/26/2014 12:42:16 am
if I were 13 in anas I would try to make boats so everyone can go to a country that has schools and they can go back when the war is over
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Juliana
3/26/2014 12:44:08 am
the main idea is the girl that's thirteen years old left Syria three years ago .
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andrew [The better MC pro than Jhon the MD pro by 10%] also [Dren's best friend]
3/26/2014 02:41:06 am
My connection is that turkey got mad at Syrians, and that is why they had the war. The war was Turkey vs. Syria. The people had to escape because they didn't want to get killed. They also took that schools, and turned them into bases.
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Ms. Brennan
3/26/2014 02:42:32 am
Andrew, how did you know that? Did your parents tell you stories about their childhoods in Turkey?
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andrew [better MCer thanm Jhon by 10%] also [Dren's best friend] also [ i am replying to Ms.Brennan's comment about that my parents told me their childhood]
3/26/2014 02:45:48 am
Yeah, they did tell me that Turkey got mad at them and they started the war. Also, I was suppose to be born in Turkey, but when my mom had me in her belly, a war happened and I was born in Amercia.
hdanelmota [.-_-.]
3/26/2014 02:41:36 am
if I was in Syria and I had no school I wouldv b dumb
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Ms. Brennan
3/26/2014 02:44:14 am
Hector, how do you think the Syrian children feel? How might school help them?
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hdanielmota
3/26/2014 02:49:43 am
back in april 11th they had sighns and the government replyed negiteve and had made the civil war and they had turnd on each other {betraded ther country}.
Jhon
3/26/2014 02:42:16 am
I have a connection that when my dad was in the army his friend said that he was focusing whether he was gonna live antoher day or not just how the Syrian children are.
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Ms. Brennan
3/26/2014 02:43:41 am
How would you feel if you were a child in Syria and were unable to go to school? Put yourself in their shoes. Please make an even deeper connection!
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Jhon
3/26/2014 02:50:57 am
When my dad was still In the army his frinds priority was n living anther day instead of fousing on his family or the contry because I the war its never NEVER certin if you will live one more day or week or month or even the whole war and the poor little kids in Syria must feel the same way . previously the kid s main priorty was education and so they wnt to school. but now their main priority has changed o living at least another day.
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George A
3/26/2014 02:50:28 am
My family was in Syria they said it was really bad they started to throw acid at people. The peoples skin started to melt. They were scared because they didn't want to get hurt. In the war knowone was aloud to live or come. I felt really bad everyone was forced to stay inside. Everyone had to live in fear and my family couldn't even sleep.
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Alper
3/26/2014 02:50:36 am
My connection is when I was a baby there was an war with Turkey , and Greece .The conflict was that the president in Syria wanted to take something from Turkey. The war happened in Syria because Greece , and Turkey heard that they wanted something . Syria is poor because they got harmed . there were a lot of bad things in the war . I disagree because they started the war with Turkey , and Greece.
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Esther K :D
3/26/2014 02:53:11 am
If I was at Syria right now I would have been with my family. I would have been really scared and frightened of what was going to happen next . My dad would have been planning to go in another state or country or another city . We would have been going to Asia because our uncle and cousins and most of my moms and dads friends are there too.
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Dren Sapunxhiu
3/26/2014 02:53:16 am
You know, my family experienced a war in THEIR country. From 1980 to 2001, they lived in the Southeast European country of Kosova. During their childhood, they encountered a war with Serbians. My mother lived in an apartment,so she didn't lose her home, along with her parents, 2 brothers, & 5 sisters. My father's time in the war was worse. His house had been bombed by the Serbian army. Even so, he survived with his parents, 2 brothers, and 1 sister. After that, people built him a new house, although the remnants of his old house still stand. In September 2001, my parents immigrated to America, 5 days before the attacks of 9/11.
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Amy J
3/26/2014 02:53:52 am
When my dad was little his mom,sister,dad,and brothers there was a war in Lebanan and it was like the war in Syria and my dad ,his sister,brother dad,his mom lost everything.My great grand father had to recue them from the war and took them to New York City in his little apartment.My dads mom would sell things to get money.They needed a new house.Also my grand father was selling things.It was hard for them.
If I was one of those kids I would be sad to live in the streets.If my parents were not there with you.I would be sad.
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amy j
3/26/2014 02:55:36 am
I also expirenced a war to
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DANA
3/26/2014 02:55:43 am
I'll feel very , very scared if I were their. Running for your life is a every day thing their if you asked me. That little girl that the people found alone must be in great danger since her mother died. And I do hope that her father shows up and that the war ends .Ill actually hope not to be killed meanwhile running to the nearest airport . Even so ill be terribly scared if had to run for my life too! Its sounds like a very dangerous place. Besides the other place that is fighting fights very dirty unlike the state that didn't fight they just didn't agree. people shouldn't make war if they feel like it. Especially if their leaders. Well....war shouldn't even exist anyway! I certainly wish that the world woud be war free.
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Kelly W
3/26/2014 02:56:27 am
My mom told a story about her friend going to Syira .Also,she was looking for her mother because her father died for her.Also,she found her mother but,she died when she was about to hug her.
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DANA
3/26/2014 02:57:33 am
How? Did she die for no reason?
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VICTOR
3/26/2014 02:56:46 am
If I was there in Syrian I would go to school for two days.
Why do the people want to fight Syrian?
This is the same thing of AberhamLIcon!
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Jhon
3/26/2014 02:56:51 am
thiers sooooooooooo much conflict in the world theses days
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ALISA PARK
3/26/2014 02:57:00 am
I would feel very sad because of the war going on in Syria. I remember when my dad`s ,dad was in the war and died :( All the violence that's going in Syria is really bad. This reminds me of the Titanic because many died on that ship when it hit the iceberg.
If I was trying to survive there then I what I would bring is water, little food, medicine, and that's all because I wont have enough time. I might not be able to take my family. If I could then I would bring them but I think its impossible........
The children in Syria should be suffering today or right now! Why are they fighting? Why cant they just pack their things and get out of there..... I feel very bad for the Syria children..... I cant believe that there was a civil war in Syria I thought they were fighting another country.
If I was a kid there I wouldn't know what to do if my family was gone...I actually would find the people who are living and run to them for help. I remember when south Korea and north Korea had a war and many people died because of that.
The Syria children should be in rela danger because of the war I feel really bad.
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alys a
3/26/2014 02:57:51 am
I would feel sad and because she is poor sorry didntt have time to do because it erased
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yamilex
3/26/2014 02:58:03 am
i have a connection from ams dad. that he was in the cival war. he had to go to the big apple.i feel bad for the girl because her mommy died .
the people who can not go to school i feel bad for. also if there is no school than that means that they are not going to be as smart
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Eliam L.
3/26/2014 02:59:59 am
I feel that scared in Syria because there was a war in Syria against someone. I feel sad about Syria that there was a war there and they have to abandon there own home where they live . I think Syria is a good place to live in. There school was destroyed and everything was destroyed. I wish there was a lot of builders that can build the whole town in Syria. The war happened was called the Civil War. It was like Martin Luther king. He made segregation to be gone he went to Washington D.C to let all the people to come and tell them to end segregation. Abraham Lincoln is to end slavery. In Syria , Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln is like ending something. I wish that we can end all those things in the past and stop that Civil War in the past ,too. Today, we don't have any things of those ,but in the future I wish we can stop it.
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sadie k
3/26/2014 03:00:19 am
I feel sad because Syria had violence. I cant believe the people destroyed their city. I feel bad that they didn`t get peace anymore too. Syria is a great place but why do they have to destroy Syria.