Definitions
When a summary is objective, that means
What is a summary with no personal feelings or opinions?
Name the country Nya and Salva are from.
What is Southern Sudan?
Name two things refugees had to worry about when they were being forced to flee into the river
What is being eaten by crocodiles and shot by soldiers?
What is Nya's family building on their land (aside from the well)?
What is a school?
i liked that salva and nya met each other at the end
What is I liked that Salva and Nya met each other at the end. ?
Is this statement objective or subjective?
"I think Nya is really brave."
What is subjective?
The name of the country that Salva first travels to where he lives at a refugee camp
What is Ethiopia?
Salva acts as a _________ when he helps 1500 lost boys make it to the Kenyan refugee camp.
This new role reminds him of his _______ (family member).
What is a leader?
What is his Uncle Jewiir?
As Salva studies English, he notes something odd about the following English words:
rough, though, fought, through
What is they all end with the same letters, but are pronounced differently?
Salva finds out his dad is sick he flies to Southern Sudan to visit him in the hospital.
What is Salva finds out his dad is sick. He flies to Southern Sudan to visit him in the hospital?
The definition of a run-on sentence
What is two or more complete thoughts combined into one sentence without the proper punctuation?
The reason why Salva and the other refugees are forced to leave the first refugee camp
What is the new Ethiopian government refuses to support refugees during the crisis in Southern Sudan?
Nya's concern when she first sees the water come out of the well on her land
What is the water is brown and muddy?
The reason Salva's dad is in the hospital
What is he has been drinking contaminated water for years and now has worms?
Nya, a member of the Nuer tribe.
What is Nya, a member of the Nuer tribe, learns she gets to go to school? **Could add any predicate.
The definition of a fragment
What is an incomplete thought (missing either the subject, predicate or both)?
The name of the country Salva travels to after being kicked out of the first refugee camp
What is Kenya?
Michael, an aid worker, helps Salva learn these two things.
Hint: One is a language. The other is a sport.
What is English and volleyball?
The reason Salva must raise money
What is he decides to create a nonprofit organization that digs wells for people in Sudan so they can have clean water?
What is...Salva learns how to speak English, but he thinks they're too many confusing words. ?
Define "theme."
True or False: A theme CAN include a character's name.
True or False: A theme must be written in a complete sentence.
What is a lesson the author wants the reader to learn from a story?
What is FALSE?
What is TRUE?
The name of the city and state Salva flies to once he learns that his name is on the list
What is Rochester, New York?
Salva notices that most of the people he meets on the plane and in the airport are white. Why does this matter to him?
What is Salva is from a region of Africa where most people are dark-skinned, so he's not used to seeing light skin?
The reason that Salva and Nya meet
Bonus Point: Why is Nya so surprised by this?
What is Salva is the crew leader in charge of building the well on Nya's land?
What is Salva is Dinka, but he is helping Nya's family who is Nuer?
In "a long walk to water."
What is...In "A Long Walk to Water," Salva ends up digging a well on Nya's land so she doesn't have to walk hours every day for water?