NYS Common Core 7th Grade ELA Module 1 Unit 2

1. DO NOW
• Take out homework
• Gathering Evidence Worksheet –
Chapters 16-18
Vocabulary!
1. What do aid organizations and relief
agencies do? (pg. 100)
2. Why might they be involved in South
Sudan?

2. A Long Walk to Water
Dictionary Work
Vocabulary
Copy into back of notebook
• aid organizations & relief agencies
How are you feeling about figuring out words?
What do you do when you find a tough word?

3. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
I can effectively engage in discussions with
my classmates about our readings.
I can explain how comparing and
contrasting Salva and Nya’s points of view
in the novel helps Park convey ideas about
how people in Sudan survive.

4. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
I can explain the physical and emotional
factors that helped Nya and Salva survive
in A Long Walk to Water.

5. A Long Walk to Water
Chapters 16-18
Detail/
Evidence
(quote)
Chapter
Page #
Explanation
What event does
this connect to?
Significance
What idea from the
chart does this
connect to? Why?

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Chapters 16-18
Detail/
Evidence
(quote)
Chapter
Page #
Explanation
What event does
this connect to?
Significance
What idea from the
chart does this
connect to? Why?

7. A Long Walk to Water
Survival Anchor Chart
Survival Anchor Chart
How did keeping this help you learn about
Salva and Nya?
…about the world?
…about the theme of survival?

8. A Long Walk to Water
World Café Discussion
World Café Discussion
What do you need?
•
A Long Walk to Water
• All notes/ sheets we’ve been working on
•
Groups of 3-4

9. A Long Walk to Water
World Café Discussion
World Café Discussion
Before we begin…
• What can you do to make sure your
conversations help everyone think more
deeply about the book?
•
Raise your hand when you have 2 ideas.

10. A Long Walk to Water
World Café
Round # 1
• Choose “recorder” – You will take notes
• Look at questions 1:
What do we learn about Salva as a leader
in Chapter 13?
Who is he leading as a boy? As an adult?
What makes him an effective leader?

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World Café
Round # 2
• Recorders: stay put!
• Others, moved to a new group together
• Recorders, share what your old group said
• Choose a NEW recorder – you take notes
this round

12. A Long Walk to Water
World Café
Round # 2
New questions:
• How does the author juxtapose Salva and
Nya in the final chapters of the novel?
• How has Salva’s point of view about the
Nuer changed?
• How has Nya’s point of view about the
Dinka changed?

13. A Long Walk to Water
World Café
Round # 3
• Recorders: stay put!
• Others, moved to a new group together
• Recorders, share what your old group said
• Choose a NEW recorder – you take notes
this round

14. A Long Walk to Water
World Café
Round # 3
New questions:
• What are the physical and emotional
resources that enable Salva and Nya to
survive?
• What do you think is the author’s opinion
about which type of resource is more
important for survival?
• What makes you say that?

15. A Long Walk to Water
Vocabulary
Have you figured it out?
Back of the notebook!
• bewildering (98)=
• destruction (99)=
• remote (100)=
• clinic (100)=

16. A Long Walk to Water
Vocabulary
Have you figured it out?
Back of the notebook!
• contaminated (106)=
• ___________
• ___________

17. A Long Walk to Water
Homework
Website: www.waterforsouthsudan.org
• Organization’s purpose:
• To inform
• To advocate (to publicly call for
something)
• What information might you find on
this website?
http://waterforsudan.org/drilling-in-south-sudan/

18. A Long Walk to Water
Homework
Homework:
• Read printout from the website
• Answer questions on the right