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ELA 4: Complete Sentences
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ELA 4: Word Choice
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ELA 4: Sudanese Settings 13 Views


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That map at the beginning of the book isn't just there to kill trees. It can actually help us come to a stronger contextual understanding of a text.

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00:12

Sometimes books can be pretty cheesy seriously our first copy of

00:16

Charlotte's Web was covered in provolone but even if you're ready for a cheesy [Charlotte's Web book covered in cheese]

00:19

emotional story chances are good that at some point you'll be required to use

00:23

some technical knowledge and no we don't mean figuring out the best way to remove [Charlotte's Web book on fire in a kitchen]

00:27

cheese from a book though we are open to suggestions anyway take the book a long

00:32

walk to water it's an emotional tale about two kids in sedan but that's not [two sudanese children smiling]

00:36

all that makes this story a good read it also has a map come on maps are great

00:42

ever watch Dora the Explorer the map was the MVP of that show while using a

00:46

map might seem a little scary with all those arrows and scales and stuff it's [girl looking scared at the thought of using a map]

00:51

definitely worth it because guess what the map isn't included just for kicks

00:56

it's there to give the story more depth and who doesn't like extra depth one of

01:00

the main characters in a long walk to water Salva has to do a lot of walking [Salva walking far in Sudan]

01:04

hence the title of the book fleeing the civil war in Sedan, Salva must walk

01:09

east all the way to Ethiopia and then south all the way to the evo camp in

01:13

Kenya so while we can tell from the story that it was a long walk by using [Salva walking in the hot desert]

01:17

them map we can figure out exactly how long his journey was spoiler alert it

01:22

was crazy long the map can even enrich our knowledge of Sudan the main setting

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of the story one of the causes of the Civil War is that the government in [goverment official asking people to practice islam]

01:29

Khartoum of sedans capital wanted everyone in the country to practice

01:33

Islam even though people living in the South have their own tribal religion by

01:37

looking at the map we can see how far Salva's was home was from Khartoum and in [map showing distance of Salva's home]

01:41

a sense of how decisions made far away in the capital had huge effects on

01:45

Salva's life so a little bit of technical knowledge can go a long way

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when it comes to understanding a book and who knows maybe it'll even help us [girl holding a Charlotte's Web book covered in cheese]

01:52

get this cheese off we really want to read this book

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