A Long Walk to Water and Mental Health

Mental health is an extremely important topic to cover in a health education class. This topic usually has a negative connotation and that shouldn’t always be the case. While teaching about mental health in my high school health education class, I’d use a scene…

A Lesson on culture in Southern Sudan-Focus on Music

A Long Walk to Water: Involvement of Islam

Lesson Plan#1 & #2 — A Long Walk to Water

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Teacher: Ms. Kaufman

Grade: 11th

Modeling events in ALWTW

In this lesson that goes from writing to a reading or oral communication I decided to go with the idea of modeling certain aspects in ALWTW. When the students get there book before this lesson they will already know to be thinking of how this book could relate to mathematics. In this…

Writing-Oral Lesson on ALWTW

This activity is based off of already being done with reading the book. With that said, this lesson will be focused on transitioning from a writing activity to an oral presentation type of activity. From the book, the students will make reflections back to sections that really…

Identifying the hook, Read-a-Loud

After the reading of “A Long Walk to Water” (ALWTW), I thought of the connections that a student…

First Aid

To start of the First Aid lesson, students will come into class and will be answering the prompt on the whiteboard. The prompt on the whiteboard will be asking students “what is first aid” and also “have you ever had to help someone in need from sickness or an injury”? After students answer the questions we…

Implementing Voki in ELA- A Lesson in Leadership

How can educators encourage student engagement, a deeper understanding of the text and characters, while creating activities that are fun? Voki. Voki is an educational tool where students can customize facial features, clothing and voice to…

Reading-Oral Lesson on ALWTW

The scenes from A Long Walk to Water that I am going to draw from are the ones specifically in the first few chapters of the book speaking of Nya and Salva’s hardships they have to face living where they live. I believe their struggles and story could be used to create a great…

Health Class

9th Grade

Standard 1.7: Propose ways to reduce or prevent injuries and health problems.

To start off students will read chapter 1 in A Long Walk to Water. In this chapter Nya is walking in the heat of the Sahara with no water. The importance of having…