NYS Common Core 7th Grade ELA Module 1 Unit 2

1. DO NOW
• Take out homework
• Vocabulary Review
Reflect on Yesterday
1. How did you do on the assessment?
2. What part(s) did you feel you did well?
3. What part(s) were challenging to you?
4. Why?

2. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
I can select pieces of textual
evidence that show the factors
that help Salva survive.

3. A Long Walk to Water
Essay Writing
Today’s Focus
• Salva’s survival is a focus for the unit
• Look at the essay prompt (question) you’ll
be writing to answer
• How do individuals survive challenging
environments in A Long Walk to Water?

4. A Long Walk to Water
Discussion Appointments
Today’s appointment:
JUBA APPOINTMENT!

5. A Long Walk to Water
Discussion Appointment
Translate the question
• Reword the question in your own words!
1. What does the prompt mean to you?
2. Write the prompt on the sheet in your own
words
3. List things you need to do to write the essay

6. A Long Walk to Water
Discussion Appointment
What do you need to do?
Share out from your discussion
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7. A Long Walk to Water
Forming Evidence-Based Claims
Worksheet to help you organize
• Claim = statement about Salva that you can
1. Prove (quote)
2. Explain (your words)
3. And is significant (important!!)

8. A Long Walk to Water
Forming Evidence-Based Claims
Focusing Question
What factors made survival possible for Salva
in A Long Walk to Water?
Detail from the Novel
Detail from the Novel
Detail from the Novel
My thinking about his
detail
My thinking about this
detail
Salva organized the
group of boys with
jobs so they could
have food, water, fire
and safety. (pg 81-82)
My thinking about this
detail
Salva was a leader. If
the group worked
Together, they would be
safe. He helped 1,200
boys make it to Kenya.

9. A Long Walk to Water
Forming Evidence-Based Claims
How I connect these
details
CLAIM

10. A Long Walk to Water
Exit Ticket
Exit Ticket! – on piece of paper
• What does the prompt ask you to discuss
in your essay?
• What do you have to do to write your
paper about the prompt?

11. A Long Walk to Water
Homework
Forming Evidence-Based Claims:
• Finish the FIRST ROW only of the
organizer
• Be sure to include page numbers!!