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
A Long Walk to Water is a novel by Linda Sue Park. This novel is about Salva, an eleven-year -old Sudanese boy who grows up in South Sudan. Later in the novel, he has faced challenges one wouldn’t dream of facing, through a long period of time. He has learned, if one helps other people, those people will then help more people, which will result in more happiness in the world. He is a round character, who changes throughout the novel. Salva is a different person at the end of the book. He has gone from hearing his death journey to fighting for survival to helping transform people’s lives forever.
In A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park tells a story about one out of a thousand Southern Sudan lost boys named, Salva. Salva is a boy who ran away during the Southern Sudanese War. Salva moves from country to country to get away from this war. During the war he loses touch of his family. Salva soon escapes the war, now he’s trying to find his way to safety. Salva was able to survive In A Long Walk to Water, by having bravery, courage, and showing grit.
Finally, the journey encountered in this poem varies from all three types of journeys, inner, imaginative and physical. “With a dampness that slowly sank into our thoughts – but we ate it all” expresses the realization of where they were and the reality of what they were going through with the mood while the hyphen is used to separate the thought and the atmosphere which is used to express the
It took 648 miles to walk from Southern Sudan to Ethiopia. Salva did this on an empty stomach with no food or water. Do you think you would survive in a 100 degree weather with no food or water, with the same cloths that you been wearing for a year? Because salva did. In the book “A Long Walk to Water” written by Linda Sue park, she talks about Salva's journey that took years and years to get to safety after the war stated. The war came to his village while he was in school he had to run to the bush with not knowing where is his family or even knowing if they are alive. Salva was running from the war for 24 years before he finally found safety in the united states. He was 11 when he started to run, he met a friend along the way but he sadly died due to being eaten by a lion. He also meant his uncle along the way which help Salva gain confidence that he was going to make it out alive, but again the uncle passed away due to three men shooting him, because he was trying to keep everyone safe. In this essay I am going to prove that we can learn to never give up even if things are at the worst point possible and if you take things one step at a time you will get through whatever you are struggling with. The key aspects I am going to be talking about are how did Salva learn never give up and even when salva is at his worst he never gives up and still has hope that he is going to make it out alive. My first body paragraph I am explaining how salva never gave up.
Kobe Bryant once said, “Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise”. This quote is demonstrated in both A Night Divided and A Long Walk to Water as in both books the characters face great challenges that allow them to rise above others. In A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen Gerta and her family are divided by the Berlin Wall. Gerta’s oldest brother, Dominique, and father are in the west and Gerta her other brother, Fritz, and their mother are in the east. They decide to tunnel under the wall to get to the west for a better life and to get back to their family. This is their escape story. In the story, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. Salva is in Sudan and his village is under attack by the rebels. He is separated from his family and must learn to survive the harsh conditions of Sudan to get to peace. The Salva’s family gets divided as and he is by himself. This is his account of his escape to the refugee camps. In both books, A Night divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen, and, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park the authors use plot sequence to develop the theme, times of hardships and danger develop perseverance.
Ruth raised her children as Jewish parents would’ve, even if she wasn’t aware of it. Like other Jewish families, she raised her children to be scholastic standouts. They were kept out of the public school system and kept in certain communities. Ruth was particular about the teachers who taught and disciplined them. She wanted he children to receive the best education.
I’ve been reading ‘ A Long Walk To Water’ recently and i have realized that salva and Nya have shaped different identities. Salva has an identity as a lost child or a brave child. while nya is known was a good child or a listener. How do you think that you’ve shaped your identity?
Salva in “A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park is in many problematic situations due to the circumstances he lives in. Salva travels through rivers, deserts, and even walks barefoot to live. Nya another character in “A Long Walk To Water” faces similar struggles to collect water and she also helps with her family. Like both Salva and Nya Billie Jo has to go through the horrific dust storm. In the texts Salva and Billie Jo both lose their beloved ones.
A book about a kid named Salva and his life as a refugee A Long Walk To Water by: Linda Sue Park. First i will talk about Salva he was 11 living in Southern Sudan when a war started in 1985 and he was in school. Then he had to start walking and he met lots of people and his uncle who kept him alive. He walked for 1 year, then stayed in a refugee camp for 6 years. Then his life changed and his name was on a list to go to America New York. When he got there he got a family and went to college. Next, life got happier he got an email that his father was alive but his brothers died. Finally, he raised enough money to start drilling water holes in villages in Sudan. Throughout his life he met lots of challenges, but just kept walking and never gave
Imagine travelling hundreds of miles across the desert barefoot while not knowing anyone. That’s what the Lost Boys of Sudan had to deal with, walking thousands of miles across the desert surviving with limited water, food supplies and no family. In the movie God grew tired of us and the book A Long Walk to Water, I find that the worldviews that were most in conflict are Society Belief and Time.
The world view of the Navajo who had lived for many centuries on the high Colorado Plateau was one of living in balance with all of nature, as the stewards of their vast homeland which covered parts of four modern states. They had no concept of religion as being something separate from living day to day and prayed to many spirits. It was also a matriarchal society and had no single powerful leader as their pastoral lifestyle living in scattered independent family groups require no such entity. This brought them repeatedly into conflict with Spanish, Mexicans and increasingly by the mid-nineteenth century, Americans as these practices were contrary to their male dominated religiously monolithic societal values. The long standing history
Over the summer I had numerous adventures while reading multiple books. However, my favorite oops that I read over the summer are called A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, All Fall Down by Ally Carter, and last but not least a series called Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter. Along Walk to Water is one of my favorite summer reads because it is extremely sad reading about a boy named Salava who survived an ongoing war and a girl named Nya who walks eight hours everyday to water from a pond. All Fall Down is a book about a girl named Grave Blakely who is haunted by memories at the embassy row about her mothers death that Grace, herself, witnessed. Through the occasion everybody has discounted what Grace saw as a reaction of watching her
The writer uses and addresses the commonality of experiences in his late poem titled “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”. This was used to bridge the gap between the writer and the reader. The poem uses imagery to describe the movement of life through nature, bringing a togetherness of spiritual unity beneath the surface. He moves the audience into a state of vulnerability allowing a chance of persuasiveness. The poem opens with a narration of the commute on the Brooklyn Ferry using many metaphors to support the awareness of the continuity which he personifies as the movement back and forth in time.
A Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Bashou, is a well-known travel piece by an incredible poet, but because of its use of poetry itself feels less like a travel piece and more like a snapshot of the human experience through a journey. This journey is a search for spiritual enlightenment, although, along the way, Bashou captures human emotion through his poetry, as he experiences loneliness, wanderlust, worries of failure, insignificance among nature’s grandeur and spiritual rebirth. Beyond the physical travel itself Bashou’s poetry gives us a look into the complex emotions a human can experience through travel, by giving the reader images to bring feeling out in the reader. Bashou solidifies the readers understanding of his quest for spiritual enlightenment and understanding not only from his introduction to his travel, but throughout with his poetry.
Certain choices are made by the individuals and in most of the cases; choices are based on the surroundings of the individuals. One of the main aims of the paper is to compare and contrast two characters from selected short stories. The first character is Sylvia from "The Lesson" written by Toni Cade Bambara and the Narrator from the poem written by Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken". The reason to compare Sylvia and The Narrator is to compare the choices made by an individual.