If you had to leave your home like Misael did, what items would you choose to take with you? Make sure they are small and light enough to carry for a long journey. Make a list or draw the items you would bring with you. What items would you miss? How does this exercise make you think about what’s most important to you?
Hold a special “show and tell” session as a class, giving each student a chance to describe the item(s) they have chosen and explain why these items are significant. Afterwards, discuss as a class the different ways students made this decision and what they learned about one another.
Teachers may also wish to view this two-minute video with their students that World Vision produced to help convey the weight of this question in regard to the Syrian refugee crisis: https://bit.ly/2ob6nG