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A Long Walk To Water Essay

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Big Ideas: • Students will read A Long Walk to Water, analyzing the points of view of the central characters, Salva and Nya. • Students focus on one key theme: how individuals survive in challenging environments. • A Long Walk to Water is paired with complex informational texts on Sudan. • Students explore the experiences of people of Southern Sudan during and after the Second Sudanese Civil War. Essential questions: • How do individuals survive in challenging environments? • How do culture, time, and place influence the development of identity? • How does reading different texts about the same topic build our understanding? • How do writers use narrative techniques to convey characters’ perspectives? • How does juxtaposing multiple characters help authors develop and contrast their points of view? Formative and Summative Assessment Strategies: • Students will complete a graphic organizer in which they gather and make inferences from textual evidence about the differences in perspective of Nya and Salva …show more content…

• Use context clues (in the sentence or on the page) to determine the meaning of words in A Long Walk to Water. • Analyze the development of a theme in a novel by identifying challenges to and factors in survival for Salva and Nya in A Long Walk to Water. o Explain what juxtaposition means and list several ways in which Salva and Nya are juxtaposed in A Long Walk to Water. • Write a research-based two-voice poem spoken by Nya and Silva (the main characters from A Long Walk to Water) that expresses your ideas about how these characters survived in challenging environments. • After reading the novel and accounts of the experiences of the people of Southern Sudan during and after the Second Sudanese Civil War, write an essay that addresses the theme of survival by answering the question: What factors made survival possible for Salva in A Long Walk to Water? Reflection on Assessments

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