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That map at the beginning of the book isn't just there to kill trees. It can actually help us come to a stronger contextual understanding of a text.
Transcript
- 00:12
Sometimes books can be pretty cheesy seriously our first copy of
- 00:16
Charlotte's Web was covered in provolone but even if you're ready for a cheesy [Charlotte's Web book covered in cheese]
- 00:19
emotional story chances are good that at some point you'll be required to use
- 00:23
some technical knowledge and no we don't mean figuring out the best way to remove [Charlotte's Web book on fire in a kitchen]
- 00:27
cheese from a book though we are open to suggestions anyway take the book a long
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- 00:32
walk to water it's an emotional tale about two kids in sedan but that's not [two sudanese children smiling]
- 00:36
all that makes this story a good read it also has a map come on maps are great
- 00:42
ever watch Dora the Explorer the map was the MVP of that show while using a
- 00:46
map might seem a little scary with all those arrows and scales and stuff it's [girl looking scared at the thought of using a map]
- 00:51
definitely worth it because guess what the map isn't included just for kicks
- 00:56
it's there to give the story more depth and who doesn't like extra depth one of
- 01:00
the main characters in a long walk to water Salva has to do a lot of walking [Salva walking far in Sudan]
- 01:04
hence the title of the book fleeing the civil war in Sedan, Salva must walk
- 01:09
east all the way to Ethiopia and then south all the way to the evo camp in
- 01:13
Kenya so while we can tell from the story that it was a long walk by using [Salva walking in the hot desert]
- 01:17
them map we can figure out exactly how long his journey was spoiler alert it
- 01:22
was crazy long the map can even enrich our knowledge of Sudan the main setting
- 01:26
of the story one of the causes of the Civil War is that the government in [goverment official asking people to practice islam]
- 01:29
Khartoum of sedans capital wanted everyone in the country to practice
- 01:33
Islam even though people living in the South have their own tribal religion by
- 01:37
looking at the map we can see how far Salva's was home was from Khartoum and in [map showing distance of Salva's home]
- 01:41
a sense of how decisions made far away in the capital had huge effects on
- 01:45
Salva's life so a little bit of technical knowledge can go a long way
- 01:48
when it comes to understanding a book and who knows maybe it'll even help us [girl holding a Charlotte's Web book covered in cheese]
- 01:52
get this cheese off we really want to read this book
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