M1 Unit 1 Lesson 5

M1 Unit 1 Lesson 5 Day 1

Gathering and Using Evidence to Analyze Salva’s and Nya’s Points of View

Learning Targets

• I can cite several pieces of text-based evidence to support my analysis of Nya’s and Salva’s character in A Long Walk to Water.

• I can analyze how Linda Sue Park develops and contrasts the points of view of Nya and Salva in A Long Walk to Water.

Multiple Choice

The point of view of the character is....

• how the author is telling the story

• the character's perspective

Multiple Choice

What does the word contrast mean?

• to compare or relate the differences between things

• to compare or relate the similiarities between things

Multiple Choice

What are you doing when you are citing information from a text?

• calling upon somebody for information

• using a quote to provide proof

• bringing somebody forward

Multiple Choice

What does the word analyze mean?

• to study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of something

• to study or determine something at face value without digging deeper

Learning Targets Restated

I can use exmaples from the text to support my deep study of Nya’s and Salva’s character in A Long Walk to Water.

I can study and deteremine how Linda Sue Park develops a different perspective for Nya and Salva; How they relate and experience the events in the story A Long Walk to Water.

Important FOCUS words for Chapter 4

sorghum

terrain

scrub

woodland

stands (n)

stunted,

unripe,

worm-rotten

Reader's Notes Chapter 4

Step 1: Mr. Persinger will reread Nya's section of Chapter 4 and the class will fill out Column's #2 and #3 on our reader's notes.

Step 2: You discuss and fill-out notes from Salva's section of Chapter 4.

Step 3: The class will come back and share their findings and complete our reading notes.

Step 4: Students will turn in their reading notes to Schoology for 5 points.