Long Walk to Water
The East African country where both Salva and Nya's stories take place.
What is Southern Sudan?
What is miasma?
The mass movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities like New York.
What is The Great Migration?
Moving or still shots that develop an idea
What are images?
The School where Mrs. Warren worked before coming to Excelsior
What is Linn Mar High School?
This massive, life-sustaining body of water presents a major obstacle for Salva as he journeys east.
What is the Nile River?
Helped track data from the Great Plague using the Bills of Mortality.
Who is John Graunt?
This legendary trumpeter is universally recognized as the foundation of modern jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Narration by one or more speakers
What is voiceover?
The city where Mrs. Warren taught in Texas for 6 years.
What is Houston?
The two tribes featured in the book that have a long-standing rivalry over land.
Who are the Dinka and Nuer?
This infamous cook was the first identified healthy carrier of typhoid in the United States
Who is Mary Mallon?
A famous 1920s Harlem speakeasy and nightclub that featured Black performers, but primarily catered to white patrons.
What is the Cotton Club?
Illustrations or animations to help explain concepts
What are graphics?
The club that Mrs. Warren helped run at her last school.
What is Contest Speech?
Salva's friend who gets eaten by a lion.
Who is Marial?
The name of the island where "Typhoid Mary" was quarantined.
This poet wrote "I Shall Return."
Who is Claude McKay?
Name of the plastic pellets that polluted the ocean and land near Hong Kong
What are nurdles?
The names of Mrs. Warren's two (living) cats
Who are Waverly and Fennec?
Who is Akeer?
This local clergyman and Snow's collaborator discovered the exact "patient zero" of the Broad Street outbreak: a six-month-old baby whose mother washed her contaminated diapers in a cesspool leaking into the well.
Who is Henry Whitehead?
Famous bandleader and pianist who regularly performed at Harlem’s renowned Cotton Club.
Who is Duke Ellington?
Who is Sinopec?
The name of the video game Mrs. Warren is currently trying to beat.
What is Hades II?