A Long Walk to Water Lesson Plan

What Happened at Itang

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will read more about the Ethiopian refugee camps of the 1980s to understand Salva's situation at Itang.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.5

Structure:

Though Salva enjoys a few years of relative peace at Itang, he and all the other refugees are abruptly forced out of the camp by soldiers in 1991. This seems like a brutal, inhumane decision by the Ethiopian government and is one of the most horrifying scenes in the book.

Have the students read this article from the New York Times archive, which was originally published May...