1. Grade 7 module 1 unit 2 lesson 6

2. Learning This Way Today
Opening
A. Vocabulary Entry Task (5 minutes)
B. Reviewing Reader’s Dictionary and Introducing Learning Targets (5 minutes)
Work Time
A. Reviewing Chapters 14 and 15: Adding to Our Anchor Charts (10 minutes)
B. Rereading “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” (10 minutes)
C. Comparing Historical Accounts in “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” and A Long Walk to Water (10 minutes)
Closing and Assessment
A. Exit Ticket: Challenges to Survival in the “Time Trip” and the Novel (5 minutes)
Homework:
Note: this homework is due at the start of Lesson 8.
Reread Chapters 14 and 15 and add two quotes to your Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer.
Read Chapters 16–18 and complete the Reader’s Notes (both parts) for these chapters.
Reread Chapters 16 – 18 and add two quotes to your Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer.

3. Targets
I can use context clues to deter Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer for Chapters (from homework) mine word meanings.
I can compare the accounts of survival in “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” and A Long Walk to Water.
I can cite several pieces of text-based evidence to support my comparison of “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” and the novel A Long Walk to Water.

4. Add to your Vocabulary. infer, context clues, juxtaposition;
isolated (84), orphaned (84), refugee (throughout), aid worker, abruptly (94), braced, frigid (95)
Use two of these words in conversation today.

5. Kick Off
Complete this task individually. Refer to the pages you read last night for homework and to your Reader’s Dictionary.
“Kakuma had been a dreadful place, isolated in the middle of a dry, windy desert.” (84)
1. What does the word isolated mean? Underline the parts of the excerpt that could help you figure this out.   
2. What does aid worker mean? What did you find on pages 85 and 86 that helped you figure it out?

6. Reader’s Dictionary
Let’s take a few minutes to check on your work in your reader’s dictionary.
Share out definitions. Make corrections.

7. Stick It and Click It
Distribute Reader’s Notes for Chapters 16-18, Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer, Chapters 14-15, and Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer, Chapters

8. Check your Work Share your work on the Salva/Nya chart.
What’s happening in chapters 14 and 15?
Water came out of the borehole in Nya’s village.”
“Salva left Kakuma refugee camp and walked to Ifo refugee camp.”
“Salva met an aid worker named Michael who taught him how to read English.”
“Salva is chosen to go to America.”
“Salva flew to New York and met his new family

9. How is your survival chart looking?
Share what you added to your survival chart.
What happened in the text that makes you say that? What is the evidence from the text?

10. White Nile Partners
Focus your discussion on the juxtaposition of Salva and Nya in Chapters 14 and 15. Remind them that in each chapter, author Linda Sue Park provides a juxtaposition of Salva and Nya. Since Unit 2, Lesson 2, the students have kept track of juxtaposition using the Salva/Nya chart.

11. Partner Work
Looking at the Salva/Nya chart, in what ways are they juxtaposed?
What comparisons is the author drawing between them?
What contrasts?
What are we learning about survival from these characters and their juxtaposition?

12. Informational Text
The author research Sudan and the Civil War. She had to know the history in order to write the book.
Reread “Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War”
Underline any details that help you answer this question:
Why was Sudan a challenging place to survive?

13. Share out your Answers Key Details include:
Apart from an 11-year peace from 1972 to 1983, Sudan has been entrenched in war since it became an independent nation in1956.”
“They went days without food or water, eating leaves and berries and sucking liquid from mud to stay alive.”
“The boys had to cross the crocodile-infested River Gilo.”

14. Compare
Use your survival chart. List in your journal the challenges to survival or means of survival that are mentioned in both the article and the book.
Refocus and share out.

15. Did you hit the bull’s eye?
I can compare the accounts of survival in ‘Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War’ and A Long Walk to Water .

16. Homework – write it down.
Reread Chapters 14 and 15 and add two quotes to your Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer.
Read Chapters 16–18 and complete the Reader’s Notes (both parts) for these chapters.
Reread Chapters 16 – 18 and add two quotes to your Gathering Textual Evidence graphic organizer. (Due at Lesson 8)

17. Work your way to the bell.
What are two challenges to survival that are mentioned in both ‘Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War’ and “A Long Walk to Water?”
Hand in your answer.

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