A Long Walk To Water Audiomrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Class



Water
Our sixth grade will be participating in a two week project based learning experience beginning this week. All students have received and have started reading Linda Sue Park’s novel; A Long Walk to Water. The story begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attacks by armed rebels, to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way. (Amazon.com)
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A Long Walk To Water Audiomrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Class Submarine

This unit is exactly what you need to teach your sixth grade learners in an engaging format with the book, A Long Walk to Water This unit digs deep into EVERY SINGLE common core informational reading and main writing standard. I am at a school that doesn’t have a reading or writing curriculum. To inquire about republishing archival content, please contact The YGS Group: philly@theYGSgroup.com, 1-800-501-9571.

A long walk to water audiomrs. parker

A Long Walk To Water Audiomrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Classes

On Tuesday, at 7:30 all students will participate in joining a tribe; Land of Plenty, Land of Just Enough and Land of Not Enough. They will randomly be assigned a group where they will experience having none, some and plenty of resources where they will share and record their experiene. Then they will view a water you-tube video in the auditorium on water as a resource and be given the itineray of the 2 weeks. Students will also construct a pair of shoes using limited resources based on the needs of a fictional Sudanese boy. Students will then be participated in team building activities. For the two weeks, students will be involved in math water related activities as well as science. Students will be reading and discussing the book throughout the two weeks. Geography and library will be researching the Dinka and the Nuer tribes as well as researching The Lost Boys of Sudan. On Wednesday, Oct 23rd all students will walk to the Merrimack River with various water containers and they will fill the water vessels in the river and we will simulate the Long Walk back to the Nock. On Thursday, students will be deciding how much water will be used for drinking, bathing and cooking as a tribe. On Friday, a slideshow of the activities will be shown in the auditorium and there will be various enrichment activities that the students can sign up for.