NYS Common Core 7th Grade ELA Module 1 Unit 2

1. DO NOW
Take out ESSAY and PLANS:
All should be complete to hand in
Vocabulary
1. What do “fictionalized” and “depicted”
remind you of? What do they mean?
2. Rewrite the sentence in your own words

2. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
I can plan and write a two voice poem that
compares and contrasts how Salva and Nya
survived in the challenging environment of
South Sudan.
I can gather evidence from A Long Walk to
Water for my two voice poem.

3. A Long Walk to Water
Dictionary Work
Vocabulary
Copy into back of notebook
• fiction:
• fictionalized:
It is the opposite of: _________________.

4. A Long Walk to Water
Dictionary Work
Vocabulary
Copy into back of notebook
• depict:
(Think “picture”)
Latin word “pict” = paint

5. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
New Writing Task!
• Will complete essay after I’ve read them
• Prepare for something more creative!
• You get to teach others about Nya and Salva

6. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
With a shoulder partner:
• What is one thing your have learned in this
module that you think is important for other
teens to know?

7. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
Reading a poem in two-voices
• First, listen as I read it aloud to you
• Turn to your shoulder partner
• One will read Uncle Jewiir
• One will read Nya’s Uncle
• Both read “Both”
• Read aloud to each other

8. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
Look at the Model Poem:
• Is the middle column a comparison or a
contrast?

9. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
Look at the Performance Task Prompt…
1. Listen as I read it to you
2. Underline the main aspects of the task

10. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
With a shoulder partner:
• How will a two-voice poem allow you to
compare and contrast Salva and Nya?
• How will you use the novel and articles
we’ve read?

11. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
To write this poem:
1. You will need a FOCUS
2. You will need a PURPOSE
* Let’s look at the Prompt again

12. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
What will you need?
1. Your Survival Anchor Chart
2. Your book
3. The articles we’ve read (“Time Trip,” and
the Washington Post articles)

13. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
Historical
Facts that
connect to
Nya
(articles)
Evidence
from Nya’s
story on
survival
(book)
Factor that
allowed
survival
(chart)
Evidence
from Salva’s
story on
survival
(book)
Historical
Facts that
connect to
Salva
(articles)

14. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
Historical
Facts that
connect to
Nya
(articles)
Evidence
from Nya’s
story on
survival
(book)
Factor that
allowed
survival
(chart)
Aid
organizations
Evidence
from Salva’s
story on
survival
(book)
Historical
Facts that
connect to
Salva
(articles)

15. Poetry Writing
Historical Facts
that connect to
Nya (articles)
Evidence from
Nya’s story on
survival
(book)
Factor that
allowed
survival
(chart)
Villages can’t drill a
borehole well on
their own because
they don’t have
expertise or
equipment. A
borehole well is a
well that goes down
hundreds of feet to
an aquifer.
Water for South
Sudan, drilled a
well in Nya’s
village.
Aid
organizations
Water for South
Sudan believes that
by working with
villagers to help
htem, they will make
it possible for the
villagers to improve
their own lives in
many ways.
(waterfor
southsudan)
The well would
make life better:
she would not get
sick from dirty
water like her
sister, and she
would be able to go
to school.
When Nya found
out a school would
be built, “She felt
as if she were
flying.” (104)
Evidence
from Salva’s
story on
survival
(book)
Historical Facts
that connect to
Salva (articles)

16. Poetry Writing
Historical Facts
that connect to
Nya (articles)
Evidence from
Nya’s story on
survival
(book)
Factor that
allowed
survival
(chart)
Evidence
from Salva’s
story on
survival
(book)
Historical
Facts that
connect to
Salva
(articles)
Villages can’t drill a
borehole well on their
own because they
don’t have expertise
or equipment. A
borehole well is a well
that goes down
hundreds of feet to an
aquifer.
Water for South
Sudan, drilled a
well in Nya’s
village.
Aid
organizations
Salva lived for a
number of years
in refugee
camps in Kenya
that were run
by aid
organizations.
Many other
boys, like
Salva, fled the
flighting in
Sudan and
ended up in
refugee camps.
Many of them
were helped by
aid
organizations
to resettle in
the U.S.
Water for South
Sudan believes that
by working with
villagers to help htem,
they will make it
possible for the
villagers to improve
their own lives in
many ways. (waterfor
southsudan)
The well would
make life better:
she would not get
sick from dirty
water like her
sister, and she
would be able to
go to school.
When Nya found
out a school would
be built, “She felt
as if she were
flying.” (104)
He learned
English from a
worker named
Michael.
An aid
organization
helped him
resettle in the
U.S.
(Author’s Note)

17. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
Your turn…10 minutes!
• Use your resources to fill in Nya’s first
• Choose one survival factor
• Fill in the historical facts
• Fill in the evidence from the book

18. A Long Walk to Water
Poetry Writing
Turn and Talk…
• Compare and contrast the essay and the poem

19. A Long Walk to Water
Homework
Read the “Author’s Note”
• At the end of the book
• Complete the vocabulary worksheet