Break HW due 1/2/2020

In class (since last week), we have been working on a packet to outline the 5 paragraphs that will make up an essay.  For HW, students will complete any part(s) of the outline/graphic organizer that are not completed this week in class.  The packet will be worth 50 total HW points (10 points per page).  I will collect it from students on the due date.


This is the information that should be gathered for the HW. 

Focusing Question: What factors enable Salva to survive the intensely challenging environment in A Long Walk to Water ?

Introduction Paragraph: Introduce text, topic, and claim.

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is a novel about… (add a brief summary of the novel) 

Claim: Include 3 survival factors

Body Paragraph #1: Survival Factor #1

1)Topic Sentence: Survival factor #1 that enables Salva to survive his difficult environment: 

2)Context for Evidence 1 (describe briefly what’s happening in that part of the story): 

3)Evidence 1: Taken directly from the text (and Page #) that directly connects to your survival factor

4)Analysis 1: How does your evidence connect to your survival factor? (your own thinking!)

5)Context for Evidence 2 (describe briefly what’s happening in that part of the story):

6)Evidence 2: Taken directly from the text (and Page #) that directly connects to your survival factor

7)Analysis 2: Explain how your evidence proves your topic sentence:

Body Paragraph 2 : Survival Factor #2

1)Topic Sentence: Survival factor #2 that enables Salva to survive his difficult environment: 

2)Context for Evidence 1 (describe briefly what’s happening in that part of the story): 

3)Evidence 1: Taken directly from the text (and Page #) that directly connects to your survival factor

4)Analysis 1: How does your evidence connect to your survival factor? (your own thinking!)

5)Context for Evidence 2 (describe briefly what’s happening in that part of the story):

6)Evidence 2: Taken directly from the text (and Page #) that directly connects to your survival factor

7)Analysis 2: Explain how your evidence proves your topic sentence:

Body Paragraph #3: Survival Factor #3

1)Topic Sentence: Survival factor #3 that enables Salva to survive his difficult environment: 

2)Context for Evidence 1 (describe briefly what’s happening in that part of the story): 

3)Evidence 1: Taken directly from the text (and Page #) that directly connects to your survival factor

4)Analysis 1: How does your evidence connect to your survival factor? (your own thinking!)

5)Context for Evidence 2 (describe briefly what’s happening in that part of the story):

6)Evidence 2: Taken directly from the text (and Page #) that directly connects to your survival factor

7)Analysis 2: Explain how your evidence proves your topic sentence:

Conclusion: Wrap it up

• Restate your claim (but change the wording up a bit) 

•  Very briefly summarize the end of the novel 

• Make a connection between your essay and society or the world 

HW #12 Due Fri 12/13

Complete WB page 58.  Make sure to use the context of what is happening in the book.

Word/Phrase	Page	Definition
scythed	64	Cut with a long, curved blade
doubtful	64
boldly	65	Without being afraid
grudgingly	66	Unwillingly
masses	66	Large groups
emaciated	68	Very thin from not getting enough to eat
mingle	71
despair	72
skittered	73	To move lightly and quickly, like a little animal
government collapse; government fall	73	When the people who are in charge in a county lose power
stampede	74
borehole	76	A deep hole drilled into the ground
earnestly	76	seriously and honestly
welter	79	Large and confusing group
plagued	80
peril	80
Other new words you encountered:

HW #11 Due Tuesday 12/10

Complete vocabulary for chapters 9-10.  Use context clues--don't give dictionary language that you don't understand.

Word/Phrase	Page	Definition
shrubs	52	Small bushes
endured	52
been reduced to	52
relentless	52
arid	52	Dry
lag	53
vulture	59	A bird that eats dead animals
corpses	59
refugee camp	60	A temporary place to live, usually made up of tents, for large numbers of people who have fled their countries
spark of hope	61
vision	61
receding	61
ritual scarring	62	A scar made on purpose to show identity, a tradition in coming-of-age ceremonies in some places
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