Walk Two Moons -By Sharon Creech

A Digital Forum Created By: Sami Kleiber
 Walk Two Moons is a book that is told from the perspective of a 13 year old girl named Sal. She is traveling with her grandparents from her new home in Ohio to Idaho. Their trip is the same trip her mother took only one year prior when she left Sal and Sal's father. While Sal is on this road trip, she tells a story about her friend Phoebe Winterbottom. Phoebe's story brings to light another story, Sal's story. 
"Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins"

Part 1: Written Response 


​CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
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Prompt: In the book, Walk Two Moons, an unknown source continues to leave messages on Phoebe’s doorstep. Pick one of the messages and write about what it meant to the characters in the book and what it means to you. Be specific about how the message can relate to your life. The messages are listed below.
  1. ”Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” (p. 51)
  2. ”Everyone has his own agenda.” (p 60)
  3. “In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?” (p 105)
  4. “You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.” (p 154)
  5. “We never know the worth of water until the well is dry.” (p 198)
Purpose: The purpose of this activity is for students to think more deeply about the book’s message and make connections to their own lives.
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 Part 2: Podcast​​

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.2
Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
​CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.5
Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Prompt: Script and create a podcast that summarizes an event in Walk Two Moons from a different character's perspective. 
Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to get students familiar with taking a new perspective of a secondary character in the book. It is also meant to demonstrate for students all of the qualities of production in media that go into making a podcast. 

Part 3: Digital Story

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
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Prompt: Create a digital story from the main character, Sal's, point of view. Use this mode to show how the events changed Sal's point of view of the events in the story. 
Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to give students a chance to recreate the book through a digital story. They will have the opportunity to be creative in their movie making and design a unique way to summarize what they read in a meaningful way. 

Part 4: Infographic

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

Prompt: Create a infographic the compares two character's in the book Walk Two Moons. Be sure to include multiple examples of similarities and differences for the characters and be able to support your claims with the text. 
Purpose: The purpose of this activity is for students to demonstrate their ability to compare and contrast characters on a deeper level of understanding. By making an infographic for this task they also learn the value of aesthetic in media.