Chapter 9: The Desert
This injury slows Salva down during his first day crossing the desert.
What is stubbing his toe?
The amount of years that have went by in Salva's story.
What is 6 years?
This is the word for a message or life lesson an author develops throughout a text.
What is theme?
A summary should never include this kind of statement about how you feel.
What is an opinion?
This word means using or referencing the current text in a discussion.
What is a text-based discussion?
Uncle does this to keep Salva moving, instead of thinking about the whole desert.
What is focus on small steps/give him checkpoints?
This is the job the women and girls of Nya's village do at the drilling site.
What is gathering and carrying rocks to be broken into gravel?
A strong answer always includes phrases or sentences from the text — this is the term for that kind of support.
What is evidence (textual evidence)?
A summary should introduce the text with these two pieces of information.
What is the title and the chapter?
This word means factual, non-bias.
What is objective?
Uncle keeps saying this to Salva when he speaks to him, to remind him of his family and village, and to keep him going.
What is his full name (Salva Mawien Dut Arrik)?
This is the reason soldiers order everyone to leave the Ethiopian refugee camp — and the country.
What is the Ethiopian government has collapsed (fallen)?
One of the theme choices for Chapter 9 is about focusing only on this, instead of the whole hard situation.
What is small steps?
A strong summary ends with one of these.
What is a concluding statement?
This word means refusing to give up.
What is perseverance?
This is what happens to the group of men Salva's group comes across lying in the sand.
What is dying of thirst and exhaustion?
This is the dangerous, crocodile-filled river the refugees are driven toward.
What is the Gilo River?
This is how many sentences long your summary should be.
What is 4-5?
This word describes a summary that is short and to the point, not padded with extra detail.
What is concise?
This word means to keep living through danger.
What is survive?
The main conflict of the chapter.
What is Uncle is shot and killed?
This is what Salva realizes about the woman in the orange headscarf he had been chasing through camp.
What is she is not his mother?
This is what you should do if a chapter seems to support more than one theme option.
What is choose the theme with the strongest textual evidence and explain why?
True or False: an objective summary should include every single detail from the chapter.
What is False — only the relevant, important events and details?
This word means a difficult problem or situation.
What is adversity?