A Long Walk to Water: Lesson6 unit2
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This document provides instructions and materials for a literature class lesson on the book A Long Walk to Water. It includes directions to take out homework, re-read chapters 14-15 and take notes, define vocabulary words using context clues, compare the accounts of two characters, discuss challenges to survival, and annotate an article on civil war in Sudan. Students are asked to add to a chart comparing the challenges faced by characters and given an exit ticket to identify challenges mentioned in both the article and book using a three-part answer format. Homework includes re-reading additional chapters and adding to notes.
A Long Walk to Water: Lesson6 unit2
- 1. DO NOW • Take out homework • Reader’s Notes – Chapters 14-15 Vocabulary! “Kakuma had been a dreadful place, isolated in the middle of a dry, windy desert.” (84) 1) What does isolated mean? (context clues) 2) What is an aid worker? (look on pages 85-86)
- 2. A Long Walk to Water Dictionary Work Vocabulary Copy into back of notebook • isolated (think “solo” or “solitary”) • aid worker-
- 3. A Long Walk to Water Learning Objectives I can use context clues to determine word meanings. I can compare the accounts of survival in “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” and A Long Walk to Water. I can cite several pieces of text-based evidence to support my comparison.
- 4. A Long Walk to Water Chapters 14-15 – RE-READ! Chapter & Page # Nya’s Story Salva’s Story (Reader’s Notes) (Reader’s Notes)
- 5. A Long Walk to Water Survival Anchor Chart Salva/Nya Anchor Chart: Look at Reader’s Notes and add to this chart Challenge Survival Skill:
- 6. A Long Walk to Water Discussion Appointments Today’s appointment: WHITE NILE APPOINTMENT!
- 7. A Long Walk to Water Discussion Appointment Questions to Discuss 1. Look at your Reader’s Notes – how are Salva and Nya juxtaposed? 2. What comparisons are drawn between them? 3. What contrasts? 4. What are we learning about survival from them?
- 8. A Long Walk to Water “Time Trip” Article Re-read on your own • Add the “gist” in the margin • 5 or less!! • Highlight any sentences that answer the question: Why was the Sudan a challenging place to survive?
- 9. A Long Walk to Water “Time Travel” Article Why was the Sudan a challenging place to survive? • • •
- 10. A Long Walk to Water Survival Anchor Chart Salva/Nya Anchor Chart: Look at Reader’s Notes and add to this chart Challenge Survival Skill
- 11. A Long Walk to Water Exit Ticket Exit Ticket! What challenges to survival are mentioned in both “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” and A Long Walk to Water? Create an ACE answer 1. Restate 2. Choose a quote from the article 3. Explain what is similar between the article and something that happened in the book.
- 12. A Long Walk to Water Homework Read and Re-Read!! • Skim Chapters 14-15 again! • Finish the quotes organizer…explain! • Read Chapters 16-18 • Add to Reader’s Notes in notebook
- 13. Take a seat – away from others – get to work Miguel, Raven David Anthony Kim