A Long Walk to Water with Fiction Signposts by Kelly Carpenter https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd Please add to the Padlet while we read. en-us 2021-11-29 00:24:57 UTC 2026-02-28 18:49:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Contrast & Contradiction carpenterk16 https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916760404 When you're reading and a character acts in a way that they don't normally act, or if someone does something that is the opposite of how we would expect people to usually act, ask yourself, "Why is the character doing that?  Why is that happening?" 
The answers to your questions may lead you to understanding:
  • Character development
  • Internal conflict
  • Theme
  • Relationship between setting and plot

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]]> 2021-11-29 00:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916760404 Again & Again carpenterk16 https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916760771 When you're reading and an event, image, or a particular word recurs and starts to seem like a pattern, ask yourself, "Why is the author making this pop up again and again?"
The answers to your questions may lead you to understanding:
  • Plot
  • Setting
  • Symbolism
  • Theme
  • Character development
  • Conflict

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]]> 2021-11-29 00:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916760771 Memory Moment carpenterk16 https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916761145 When the  flow of the narrative is
interrupted by a memory that comes to the character (often taking several paragraphs to explain) before we are
returned to events of the present
moment, you should ask yourself, "Why might this memory be
important?"
The answers to your questions may lead you to understanding:
  • Character development
  • Plot
  • Theme
  • Relationship between character and plot
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]]> 2021-11-29 00:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916761145 Words of the Wiser carpenterk16 https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916761645 When the main character and another are usually off by themselves in a quiet serious moment, and the wiser figure shares his or her wisdom or advice in an effort to help the main character with a problem or a decision, you should ask yourself, "What the life lesson, and how might it affect the character?"
The answers to your question may lead you to understanding:
  • Theme
  • Internal conflict
  • Relationship between character and plot
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]]> 2021-11-29 00:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916761645 Aha! Moment carpenterk16 https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916761866 When a character realizes something that shifts his actions or
understanding of himself, others, or
the world around him, or uses phrases like, 
“Suddenly I understood...” 
“It came to me in a flash that...”
“The realization hit me like a lightning bolt...”
“In an instant I knew...”
you should ask yourself,
"How might this change things?"
The answers to your question may lead you to understanding:
  • Character development
  • Internal conflict
  • Plot
  • Theme
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]]> 2021-11-29 00:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916761866 Tough Questions carpenterk16 https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916762068 When you're reading and a character raises a serious question that reveals his or her inner struggles, you should ask yourself, "What does this question make me wonder about?"
The answers to your question may lead you to understanding:
Internal conflict
Theme
Character development
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]]> 2021-11-29 00:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916762068 What do you think? What do you like about the author's writing? What events in the book go to your heart? carpenterk16 https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916762464 Many of our thoughts while reading fit into a signpost category, but sometimes we are just responding to a text on a very human level. 

Use this column to record your thoughts, questions, and answers to others' questions below:]]> 2021-11-29 00:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916762464 Model Student https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916790852 Salva runs into the bush, like his teacher tells him to. It seems like he really just wants to run home to his family.]]> 2021-11-29 00:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1916790852 a long walk to water https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1917805960 "Where is my family? are they okay?" 


-Anyah]]> 2021-11-29 13:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1917805960 Robbie https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1917817840 Do they get milk from a cow or a goat or is it like a widebeast?]]> 2021-11-29 13:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1917817840 Trinity https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1917850778 Salva keeps thinking about how he misses his family and if there ok. I mean I would to.]]> 2021-11-29 13:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1917850778 logan pierdinock-hagen https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1925449324 salva keeps on asking where his family is a whole lot ]]> 2021-12-02 15:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1925449324 Re: Robbie carpenterk16 https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1929994129 Salva helped his family raise cows...so I am going to guess it is milk from a cow.]]> 2021-12-05 23:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/carpenterk16/m2mcbnaz7osx69kd/wish/1929994129