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Announcements and Reminders:
All late, revised, and extra credit work was due on Friday, May 20!
Bring treats on the 24/25! You may take home your composition book today. You may hand in your hall passes today if you haven't already.
Today please turn in all books checked out from our classroom.
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Targets for Today:
I can read and comprehend historical fiction.
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Today’s Agenda:
Take your work. Keep anything from this term until you have received your "report card" -- your final grade. _________________
We will read from A Long Walk to Water, and view part of a fictional video (about 24 minutes) based on stories of children from South Sudan.
http://www.waterforsouthsudan.org/ 4 minute video
A Long Walk to Water
Salva's group crosses the Nile River, and then crosses the Akobo Desert.
Some members of the group share their water with strangers they find dying of thirst.
The group is robbed by armed men, then they kill Salva's uncle.
Meanwhile, at Nya's village the area between two trees is being cleared.
With his uncle dead, the people he is traveling with treat him as if he is worthless. He knows he is not.
They arrive at the Itang Refugee Camp.
A strange "red giraffe" (well digging equipment) is brought to Nya's village.
Salva is alone and sad in the refugee camp, but decides to use the lesson his uncle taught him -- to set small goals -- to just make it through one day at a time.
Salva finds out that the refugee camp is being closed, and that all the refugees must leave Ethiopia, crossing a dangerous river, swollen by rains and inhabited by crocociles.
At Nya's village, the people continue to work on drilling and preparing a well, led by the "boss" who had brought the equipment and expertise.
Salva has to swim the river, threatened by a hail of bullets and the hungry crocodiles. Then he again had to walk and walk and walk.
Crowds of boys begin to follow Salva. He organizes the group which grows to over 1200 boys. He leads them to safely in Kenya. It took a year and a half.
The well at Nya's village works! They have water!
For five years Salva lives in refugee camps, often very like a prison.
Salva is chosen to travel to America, sponsored by a family and church.
He and others like him are called the "Lost Boys."
After the well is working, the village men begin clearing another spot of land for a school -- for boys and girls.
Salva went to high school and college, preparing himself to return and help the people in Sudan.
He receives a message that his father is alive, but ill.
Salva travels to Sudan to find his father. He does! He finds out his mother is alive, too, but surrounded in the village once again by war. Two of his brothers were dead.
He finds out his father is sick from guinea worms.
On the way back to the U.S., Salva decides he will help the people of Sudan by digging wells. He has to overcome his fears to speak to crowds of people, raising money to dig the wells.
At Nya's village, she speaks to the man who had helped her Nuer village dig the well. He was a Dinka man named ____________.
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If You Were Absent:
See above.
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