A LONG WALK TO WATER Final Multimedia Project

A LONG WALK TO WATER Final Multimedia Project By Mary De. Noyer

This is a multimedia project for the novel A Long Walk to Water, written by Linda Sue Park. A Long Walk to Water is based on a true story. There are two stories that are told in alternating sections. One, Salva Dut, an elevenyear-old Dinka boy who goes on a terror-filled journey after his southern Sudanese village is attacked by armed rebels. The other, Nya, an elevenyear old Sudanese girl who, in 2008, fetches water from a pond that is a two hour walk from home. She makes this trip twice a day. INTRODUCTION I choose this book for my after school middle school reading program. I was so moved by the perseverance and hope in the characters. The majority of my students are living in a poverty situation, dealing with multiple issues such as homelessness, hunger, drug abuse, abandonment, etc. A Long Walk to Water would allow my students to experience strength, faith, and endurance and make connections to these characters. Additionally, exploring other cultures and countries is part of our district’s goals as so many of our children have been sheltered from other parts of the world.

Wisconsin DPI Standards that align to this project • RL. 5. 1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. • RL. 5. 2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. • RL. 5. 3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e. g. , how characters interact)

• RL. 5. 4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. DPI Standards Continued: • RL. 5. 5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem. • RL. 5. 6: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described. • RI. 5. 3: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

Guided instruction by myself These Lesson Plans are designed as follows: Slides 6 -27 Students will use individual chromebooks/ipads to interact with the multimedia Students can read the text versus listen to the audios. Students can choose to use either a paper journal or chromebook for the writing connection assignments Meaning Maker: students use prior knowledge and experiences to interpret the text. Text User: students can understand the development of the novel and make a text-to-self connection. Text Critic/Analyzer: students determine and evaluate author’s purpose, point of view/biases. Code User/Breaker: students use their reading foundational skills to interpret the text.

Book Introduction True story of two young people from southern Sudan. Salva is forced to run away from his home due to fighting in Sudan Salva survives many hardships as he travels from one refugee camp to another A girl, Nya who lives in 2008 Some men come to dig a well in her village Near the end of the book Salva goes to America A boy, Salva who lives in 1985 Nya walks hours every day to get water

Meaning Maker Looking at the front and back covers: * What might this story be about? * Where might this story take place? * What clues are given about the location and the characters?

Watch the Book trailer below (Click on the trailer) Did this change your thoughts about what the book is about? Meaning Maker

The first few paragraphs of each chapter are about Nya (printed in brown letters) and the rest of each chapter is about Salva. Tex t Us er

What Do You Know? Meaning Maker • What do you know about the continent of Africa? • Do you know any famous people from Africa? • Have you watched any movies that take place in Africa? • What is a refugee? • What do you know about the “Lost Boys of Sudan”? Did you know they were named after Peter Pan’s cadre of homeless orphaned boys? • What do you know about the supply of clean water in Africa?

• Be sure to return to this map as you read the story • Trace Salva Dut’s journey (broken line) – estimate the length using the map’s scale • Identify the following • Nile River • Akobo Desert • Gilo River • Loun-Arik (Salva’s home village)Kakoma, Ifo • Refugee camps – Itang T er Us ext

Chapters 1 -2 (pp. 1 -13) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • Droned (p. 2) • Rebels (p. 6) • Muslims/Islams (p. 6) • Objected (p. 12) • Others: Identify the examples of personification on p. 1 Nya is on her way to get water. Salva’s school day is interrupted by gunfire. Read/listen to find out what he does. What did we learn about Nya and Salva? What was the cause of the fighting outside of school? Did Salva make a good choice by not going home? Why do you think the group left Salva? Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Do you think Salva supports the rebel cause? Why?

Chapters 3 -4 (pp. 1425) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • Horizon (p. 14) • Artillery (p. 18) • Sorghum (p. 20) • More: Nya gets water from the pond. After returning home, she eats lunch and then returns to the pond for more water. Meanwhile, Salva meets an older lady who helps him for a few days and later a group of his people. Read/listen to find out if they let him join their group. Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Getting water video What does Nya do every day? How would you feel if you were Nya? How was the older woman helpful to Salva? Why didn’t the group want to take Salva with? How did Salva feel? Do you think Salva will find his family? Explain

Chapters 5 -6 (pp. 2638) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • Luscious (p. 28) • Inhabited (p. 31) • Solemn (p. 35) • Topi (p. 37) • More: Nya and her family move to a camp near the lake to get water during the dry season. Salva meets a new friend named Marial, and his Uncle Jewiir joins his group. Read/listen to find out how Salva feels to have his uncle around. Chapter 5 Chapter 6 • How do you think Salva felt to have a new friend? Do you have a good friend? • What dangers do Salva face? • Why is Uncle Jewiir good for the group? • How does the author imply that Marial was killed by a stalking lion? • Compare and Contrast: Nya’s water/your water & How she gets it/how you get yours

Chapters 7 -8 (pp. 39 -50) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • reeds (p. 43) • monotonous (p. 46) • gauge (p. 46) • Mangoes (p. 48) • More: Nya’s sister, Akeer, gets sick and Nya and her mother take Akeer to see a doctor. Salva starts to deal with the death of Marial by staying close to Uncle. Salva’s group builds boats to cross the Nile River. They stop at some islands in the middle of the river. Read/listen to find out what they do there. Chapter 7 Chapter 8 • • What problems do Salva and his group face? Why was Akeer sick? What was the island like? What special memories does Salva think about while he is on the island? If you were Salva riding on a homemade boat what would be doing, thinking, feeling?

Chapters 9 -10 (pp. 51 -63) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • Endured (p. 52) • Arid (p. 52) • Tamarind (p. 54) • Revived (p. 58) • More: Some men come to Nya’s village and talk about the water situation. Salva gets very discouraged on their long walk through the desert. Uncle encourages him to keep having hope. Some men show up. Read/listen to find out what they do. Chapter 9 Chapter 10 • How has Uncle encouraged Salva? • Do you think they will find water in Nya’s village between the two trees? • What was it like for Salva and the others as they traveled through the desert? • Would you have given up some of your water to help save those men? Explain. List the hardships that Salva has had to endure so far. Do you think he will be able to stay hopeful?

Chapters 11 -12 (pp. 64 -75) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • Scythed (p. 64) • Mourn (p. 65) • Emaciated (p. 68) • Chaos (p. 74) • More: Men start to clear trees and drill holes in Nya’s village as they work to bring water to the people. Salva makes it to the refugee camp. The end of chapter 12 is six years later. Read/listen to find out what happens to the camp at that time. Chapter 11 Chapter 12 • What lessons does the author want us to learn from this book? • Why does Nya say that the drill is a giraffe? • Who Could those men be that are drilling? • What is a refugee camp like? What will Salva do now? Do you think Salva’s family could actually still be alive? Explain.

Chapters 13 -14 (pp. 7689) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • Persuade (p. 77) • Peril (p. 80) • Isolated (p. 84) • More: The men finally reach water in Nya’s village. Salva leads a group of boys to a new refugee camp in Kenya. The boys start to be chosen to go to America. Read/listen to find out if Salva is chosen to go to America. Chapter 13 Chapter 14 • Do you think Nya’s village will ever have clean drinking water? • What makes Salva a good leader? • How was Michael a good friend to Salva? • Predict what life will be like for Salva in America. Imagine you were adopted by a family in another country. What would you miss? What new things would you need to learn?

Chapters 15 -16 (pp. 90102) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • Fatigue (p. 95) • Frigid (p. 95) • Bewildering (p. 98) • Remote (p. 100) • More: The people in Nya’s village become more encouraged by the fact that they will be getting clean water. Salva meets his new family in America. Six years pass and Salva is now going to college. He finds out some exciting new about his real family. Read/listen to find out the family news. Chapter 15 Chapter 16 • Who are the Lost Boys? (p. 91) • Describe Salva’s American family? • How did Salva find out that his father was alive? How would you feel if you were Salva about finding his father?

Chapters 17 -18 (pp. 103 -115) Code Breaker: Check your understanding of these important words: • Haze (p. 106) • Contaminated (p. 106) • Reality (p. 110) • Disputes (p. 113) • More: A school is being built in Nya’s town! Nya is very excited to have clean drinking water. Salva visits his father and learns about his family. He starts to work on a project to help the people of Sudan. Read/listen to find out about his project. Chapter 17 Chapter 18 • How are Nya and Salva connected? • How did the well make Nya’s life and her village better? • What was Salva’s project? • What motivated him to drill wells in Sudan? Would you want to be involved in Salva’s project? Why or why not?

Further Discussion: Hint: Read Sa lva’s message on pp. 116 -117 • What do the following quotes reveal about Salva’s growth and development over the years? “Where are we going? ” “Where is my family? ” “When will I see them again? ” “One problem at a time-just figure out this one problem. “ • How do Uncle Jewiir’s words to Salva when they are in the desert, “You need only to walk as far as those bushes” enable Salva to eventually lead 1, 500 displaced boys on a dangerous trek from Ethiopia back to southern Sudan and finally to safety in the ifo refugee camp in Kenya?

Assignments: • View Salva Dut’s website for his nonprofit organization: Water for South Sudan. Complete the Comparison Chart about the relationship between having clean, accessible source of water and the development of schools and education. • How are Nya and Salva alike? Different? Complete the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the characters and their storylines.

Write a message in a form of a Tweet From Salva to one of the following: • His American family • His nonprofit organization’s donors • One of his drilling crews in South Sudan

Explore: Like this book? By Sue Park www. lspark. com • • • Single Shard, 2011 Bee-Bim Bop!, 2008 When My Name Was Keoko, 2012 The Kite Fighters, 2010 Project Mulberrry, 2017 Forest Of Wonders, 2016 Keeping Score, 2010 The Third Gift, 2011 Seesaw Girl, 2011 Mung-Mung, 2004 Archer’s Quest, 2006 The Firekeeper’s Son, 2004 Similar Storylines: • Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water Home, M. Mulder • The Red Pencil, A. Pinkney • Home Of the Brave, K. Applegate • Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur, H. Bashire • Teacup, R. Young • Inside Out & Back Again, T. Lai • Brother’s in Hope, M. William • A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk, J. Coates • Esperanza Rising, P. Ryan

Create – make an experience of your own!! • Make some origami of animals you would find in Africa. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Elephant Lion Giraffe Leopard Peacock • Make your own drinking gourd like the one Salva carries on his journey: 1. 2. 3. Hollow out a gourd Attach a string Fill it with water!

About the Author: Linda Sue Park is an American author of teen fiction. Park published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. She has written six children’s novels and five picture books. TED Talk Can A Children's Book Change the World?

Author’s Purpose • What lessons does the author want us to learn from this book? • List details to support your answer. • What does the title of the story, A Long Walk to Water, mean? • List details to support your answer. • Why did Park write about Nya and Salva in the same story? • How are they connected? • List details to support your answer. Linda Sue Park’s Interview with Salva Dut Read Park’s note on pp. 118 -120 Text Critic