This document provides guidance and materials for a lesson on Chapter 2 of the book "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park. It includes learning objectives, vocabulary definitions, discussion questions, and instructions for a close reading activity with a partner where students discuss their notes and understanding of the chapter by talking back-to-back and then face-to-face. The central task is for students to read Chapter 2, taking notes to analyze and compare the points of view of the two main characters, Nya and Salva.

1. DO NOW
Take out signed letter
Read!
Look at Nya’s story on page 8.
What can you learn about her from this
passage?

2. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
I can determine the central idea of
Chapter 2 in A Long Walk to Water.
I can analyze how the author,
Linda Sue Park, develops and contrasts the
points of view of Nya and Salvia.
I can effectively engage in discussions with
my classmates about our reading.

3. A Long Walk to Water
Vocabulary
Definitions for back of notebook:
contrast =
point of view =

4. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
What do you think?
• What will YOU do as a reader to meet meet
these objectives?
• Think….pair….share!

5. Difficult Texts!
What can we do?
Things Close Readers Do
• Get the gist of what a text is about
• Know how YOU deal with emotional text
• Talk about what they read!!

6. A Long Walk to Water
Chapter 2
Chapter
&
Page #
Nya’s Story
1st Ideas
Nya’s Story
New ideas
Salva’s Story
1st Ideas
Salva’s Story
New Ideas

7. A Long Walk to Water
Notebook
Read for the gist
• Read along AS we read aloud
• Read for general understanding
• Use your “Reader’s Notes”
• Add to Columns 2 & 4 as you listen

8. A Long Walk to Water
Vocabulary
Vocabulary!
Open to last page in notebook
• littered =
• rebels =
• hesitated =

9. A Long Walk to Water
Vocabulary
More Vocabulary!
• scurried =
• protested =
• objected =

10. A Long Walk to Water
Back-to-Back & Face-to-Face
What to do:
• Back-to-back with partner
• Listen to question & think about answer
• Face partner
• Decide who speaks first
• Talk & listen
• Repeat!

11. A Long Walk to Water
Back-to-Back & Face-to-Face
Question # 1:
In Chapter 1, it says that Salva, “was letting
his mind wander down the road ahead of his
body.” He begins to daydream about when
he and his friends, “made cows out of clay.”
What does this daydream tell you about the
importance of cattle in Salva’s life?

12. A Long Walk to Water
Back-to-Back & Face-to-Face
Question # 2:
In Chapter 2, we learned that thorns littered
the ground where Nya is. It says that Nya,
“looked at the bottom of her foot. There it
was, a big thorn that had broken off right in
the middle of her heel.”
What does the thorn in the heel tell you
about Nya? Explain WHY.

13. A Long Walk to Water
Chapter 2
Chapter
&
Page #
Nya’s Story
1st Ideas
Nya’s Story
New ideas
Salva’s Story
1st Ideas
Salva’s Story
New Ideas

14. A Long Walk to Water
Homework
Exit Ticket = Homework!
• Use your Reader’s Notes chart
• How does Ms. Park create differences
between Nya and Salva?