NYS Module 1 ELA 7th Grade

1. DO NOW
Take out article “Sudanese Tribes
Confront Modern War”
• Homework should be on your articles
Look at question “e” at the right
• Think about it
• Discuss it with your partner
• Note your answer on the page

2. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
I can make connections from the text
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War” to
the novel A Long Walk to Water.
I can cite several pieces of text-based
evidence to support my analysis of excerpts
from the article.
I can use context clues to determine word
meaning.

3. A Long Walk to Water
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Think-Pair-Share
• Share your homework with partner
• Be ready to share with the class

4. A Long Walk to Water
The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 4
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5. A Long Walk to Water
The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Question “e”
• How does the second sentence help you
understand the sentence, “The fault line was
tribal?”

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The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 5
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7. A Long Walk to Water
The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 6
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The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 7
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The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 8
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The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 9
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11. A Long Walk to Water
The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 10
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12. A Long Walk to Water
The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 11
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13. A Long Walk to Water
The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Paragraph # 12
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14. A Long Walk to Water
The Gist!
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Question “f”
• In paragraph 12, what could the elders do?”
(use paragraph 11 for help!)

15. “Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Summary
What is the main idea of the secend
excerpt (pgh 4-12)?
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16. “Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Summary
What is the main idea of the secend
excerpt (pgh 4-12)?
In 1991, the rebel army split, and the Dinka and
Nuer started killing each other with guns. They
didn’t believe that killing each other with guns as
a part of a government war was as bad as killing
each other with spears like they did before.

17. A Long Walk to Water
Background Knowledge
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Excerpt # 2
• Read along as I read again
• Keep in mind the Gathering Evidence
worksheet as you read!

18. “Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Gathering Evidence Worksheet
Detail/ Evidence Pg # Inference/ Reasoning Used in
your
writing?
“Until 1991, the guns were
used mostly against
northerners.”
4 Both the Dinka and Nuer
were fighting …
“Children, women and the
elderly used to be off-limits
during raids.”
“A bit of blood of any man a
Nuer speared to death was
thought to be in the slayer, and
had to be bled out of the upper
arm by an earth priest.”

19. “Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Gathering Evidence Worksheet
Detail/ Evidence Pg # Inference/ Reasoning Used in
your
writing?
“The believe, „The ghost of
the deceased will not haunt
me, because I did not kill
with a spear.‟”
“He found armed youths
running roughshod in a
society whose dysfunction
paralleled that of inner cities
8,000 miles away.”

20. “Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”
Connections!
Chapter 1-5 of A Long Walk to Water:
Salva‟s journey takes place before the
Dinka-Nuer split.
How does this article help you understand his
point-of-view?
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21. A Long Walk to Water
Learning Objectives
I can make connections from the text
“Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War” to
the novel A Long Walk to Water.
I can cite several pieces of text-based
evidence to support my analysis of excerpts
from the article.
I can use context clues to determine word
meaning.

22. A Long Walk to Water
Homework
Selecting Evidence Organizer
• Top is the example – Let’s go over it!
• YOU try the bottom question
• Write it on paper to hand in tomorrow
• Use your Gathering Evidence sheets to
answer the question