NYS Common Core 7th Grade ELA Module 1 Unit 2

1. DO NOW
• Take out homework
• Reader’s Notes – Chapters 14-15
Vocabulary!
“Kakuma had been a dreadful place, isolated
in the middle of a dry, windy desert.” (84)
1) What does isolated mean? (context clues)
2) What is an aid worker? (look on pages
85-86)

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Dictionary Work
Vocabulary
Copy into back of notebook
• isolated (think “solo” or “solitary”)
• aid worker-

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Learning Objectives
I can use context clues to determine 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.

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Chapters 14-15 – RE-READ!
Chapter
&
Page #
Nya’s Story
Salva’s Story
(Reader’s Notes)
(Reader’s Notes)

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Survival Anchor Chart
Salva/Nya Anchor Chart:
Look at Reader’s Notes and add to this chart
Challenge
Survival Skill:

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Discussion Appointments
Today’s appointment:
WHITE NILE APPOINTMENT!

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Discussion Appointment
Questions to Discuss
1. Look at your Reader’s Notes – how are Salva
and Nya juxtaposed?
2. What comparisons are drawn between them?
3. What contrasts?
4. What are we learning about survival from
them?

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“Time Trip” Article
Re-read on your own
• Add the “gist” in the margin
• 5 or less!!
• Highlight any sentences that answer the
question: Why was the Sudan a
challenging place to survive?

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“Time Travel” Article
Why was the Sudan a challenging place
to survive?
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Survival Anchor Chart
Salva/Nya Anchor Chart:
Look at Reader’s Notes and add to this chart
Challenge
Survival Skill

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Exit Ticket
Exit Ticket!
What challenges to survival are mentioned in both
“Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War” and A Long Walk to
Water?
Create an ACE answer
1. Restate
2. Choose a quote from the article
3. Explain what is similar between the
article and something that happened in
the book.

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Homework
Read and Re-Read!!
• Skim Chapters 14-15 again!
• Finish the quotes organizer…explain!
• Read Chapters 16-18
• Add to Reader’s Notes in notebook

13. Take a seat – away from others – get
to work
Miguel,
Raven
David
Anthony
Kim