1) Create your own story from the point of view of a child in South Sudan. Try to write from your own point of view. How would you feel if you lost your family? How would you motivate yourself to keep walking? How would you feel if you had very little food and water?
2) Students will create a Venn Diagram and compare and contrast the life journeys of both Salva and Nya.
3) Conduct a debate on Water For Sudan.
- The activity will encourage student to think deeply about their personal experiences and the experiences of the characters in the book. By creating a story about what they imagine their lives would be like they are reaching the highest stage of Bloom's Taxonomy.
2) Students will create a Venn Diagram and compare and contrast the life journeys of both Salva and Nya.
- This will help students think in a higher level about Nya and Salva and their connections within the story. This is connected in the story because Nya and Salva are the two main characters/narrators. In the end of the book, there is a connection between Salva and Nya that the students will have to add in their Venn Diagram.
3) Conduct a debate on Water For Sudan.
- This activity will help involve and engage students to think highly and deeply about real life experiences and their own beliefs about his organization. The debate would be about students coming up with reasons for or against on why people should fund money to help support Salva and his organization