This document provides guidance and instructions for students to analyze chapters 1 and 2 of the book "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park. It instructs students to take out homework, re-read the assigned chapters, find evidence of Salva's tribe's culture. It also lists learning objectives and vocabulary terms for students to define. Students are told to use evidence from the text to answer questions about how characters' identities are shaped by culture, time and place. A worksheet is included for students to record details, evidence, inferences and reasoning found in their analysis.

1. DO NOW
Take out homework (Exit Tickets)
Re-read! Look at Chapter 2 (pg. 8-13)
Find one sentence that shows you
something about the culture of Salva’s
tribe.
**Hint! Jobs, traditions, religion, etc.

2. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
I can cite several pieces of text-based
evidence to support my analysis of Nya’s
and Salva’s character.
I can analyze how the author,
Linda Sue Park, develops and contrasts the
points of view of Nya and Salvia.

3. A Long Walk to Water
Vocabulary
Definitions for back of notebook:
cite =
evidence =

4. 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!!
• Use the text to answer questions
• Re-read

5. A Long Walk to Water
Gathering Evidence
Guiding Question:
How do culture, time and place influence
the development of identity?

6. A Long Walk to Water
Vocabulary
Vocabulary!
Open to last page in notebook
• culture= the beliefs and lifestyles of a
particular group of people
What are examples of how someone’s
culture shapes his or her identity?

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Vocabulary
Vocabulary!
Open to last page in notebook
• time= a specific period in which
someone lives (1980’s, 2008)
What are examples of how someone’s
time shapes his or her identity?

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Vocabulary
Vocabulary!
Open to last page in notebook
• place= a geographic location in which
someone lives (includes weather,
climate, resources, etc.)
What are examples of how a place
shapes someone’s identity?

9. A Long Walk to Water
Gathering Evidence Worksheet
What to do:
• Read directions silently
• Fill in boxes with your information
• Use Chapters 1-2 to complete the grid

10. A Long Walk to Water
Gathering Evidence Worksheet
Detail/ Evidence Page # Inference/ Reasoning Used in
your
writing?
“Salva had three brothers
and two sisters. As each
boy reached the age of
about ten years, he was
sent off to school.”
2 In Salva’s culture,
schooling is only for
boys. He feels happy
and takes school
seriously.
“It would take her half the
morning if she didn’t stop
along the way.”
1
From the book
Your ideas based
on the book

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Gathering Evidence – Rereading!
Use evidence to prove your inference
• How did the time period when Salva grew
up affect who he is?
• How did where Nya lived affect who she is?
• What are Salva and Nya’s cultures like?

12. A Long Walk to Water
Gathering Evidence Worksheet
Detail/ Evidence Page # Inference/ Reasoning Used in
your
writing?

13. A Long Walk to Water
Gathering Evidence – Rereading!
On Your Own!!!
• Try Chapter 2 by yourself
• Use the worksheet to record your answers
• When done, circle the row of which you are
most proud.

14. A Long Walk to Water
Homework
Homework!
• See the lines at the bottom of your
Gathering Evidence Worksheet.
• Come up with two (2) questions you have
after reading Chapters 1 & 2.
Hint! Questions can be about place, time, culture,
people, the future of the two stories…or…