The long (and sometimes dangerous) walk to school. I stumbled upon this article and I was inspired to share it with you. We take walking to school for granted. We can ride our bike, walk or sometimes your parents will drop you off. For some children they do not have that luxury, they may be in war zones, tropical conditions or living a long distance from their school with no transport.
Read the article and answer the following questions in your book. You must have:
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Take a look at how other children get to school and how dangerous it is for them. Answer these questions:
- Which image interests you and why?
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Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not?
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If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in? and Why? Explain by using evidence from the text your have read.
http://www.euronews.com/2015/06/02/the-long-and-sometimes-dangerous-walk-to-school/
I would like you to complete a Non Fiction reading marathon on the article. You will not be timed and I would be hope you could help Mr Childs with this. We have completed several and you can show him your examples in your reading response books.
Here is a reminder of your sections:
- Create a front cover if this article was a book.
- Write a list of questions you have about the topic.
- Draw a photo or illustration from the article.
- List interesting words and their their meaning from the article.
- Draw a diagram, Chart, Map, Graph, timeline or another photo.
- List 3 facts about the topic that you learnt from the article.
Here are some examples that my class has completed previously on this topic –
Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province, China. Located halfway up a mountain, the school has 68 students of whom about 20 live in the nearby Gengguan village. Students from Gengguan have to edge their way along the narrow cliff path, the only available route, to go to class every day. Picture taken March 12, 2013. 
Students hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school in Lebak, Indonesia. Flooding from the Ciberang river broke a pillar supporting the suspension bridge, which was built in 2001. Sofiah, a student crossing the bridge, says she will need to walk for an extra 30 minutes if she were to take a detour through another bridge REUTERS/Beawiharta 
Students hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school in Lebak, Indonesia. Flooding from the Ciberang river broke a pillar supporting the suspension bridge, which was built in 2001. Sofiah, a student crossing the bridge, says she will need to walk for an extra 30 minutes if she were to take a detour through another bridge REUTERS/Beawiharta 
A school boy, carrying a backpack, walks past burning fuel tankers along the GT road in Nowshera, located in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province October 7, 2010. 
Schoolboys push their bicycles through a flooded road after heavy monsoon rains in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 4, 2013. REUTERS/Amit Dave 
Elementary school girls cross a river to go to school in the village of Nagari Koto Nan Tigo in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, November 14, 2012. Schoolchildren from around 46 families in the village are forced to cross the river every day because there is no bridge, villagers say.
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I wonder how much people walk through floods to get to their schools.
Hi miss Joyce
1. Which image interests you and why? I like the forth picture it looks like a tank
Blow it up
2.should they come to shchool in this whether I think they should not come to school because they might get hurt
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in?I want to go on the second one so you can have fun and walk to school at the same time
Which image interests you and why? The one where there walking up a mountain because you don’t see that very often with just kids and one adult.
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not? They should not attend school in these conditions because there to dangerous and the children can die.
Hi mrs Joyce
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not?
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in? http://www.euronews.com/2015/06/02/the-long-and-sometimes-dangerous-walk-to-school/
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I think the fourth picture is interesting because I just wonder why that boy is walking near tuns of danger.
I think children shouldn’t because they’re risking their lives.
Ahemedebad
Hey guys. We’ve arrived in Adelaide. It was a 1 hour and 10 minute flight. We went on Tigerair. ✈️
Which image interests you and why? The boy with the backpack on walking through the rough and bumpy roads of Pakastan. He would have been really brave to do that.
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not? They shouldn’t because they could get lost it would be dangerous and they could possibly die.
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in? None of them. They are all to dangerours and life rixking. I fell sorry for the kids that do.
😀
Which image interests you and why? the one in westen india because it is extradinroy how they get trough the flood.
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not? they shouldn’t because it what be dangreous in the water.
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in? none of them because there life risxing and the suetet’s what get a cold
Which image interests you and why?
I chose the 4th one because i wondered why he
was near that flame.
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not?
i think they should not go to school because they might get badly hurt
when they are working to school and that is very bad
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in?
the country i would like to walk in is Queensland because there is no war
and i would not get shot
Which image interests you and why? the top one because kids should walk on the grass instead of mountains. some kids are scared of heights.
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not? no because boulders might crush them.
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in? the bridge because if it was hot you could go for a swim.
The image that interests me is the one when there climing across the broken bridge, because if they fall down it would be very dangerous and they will drown.
Yes and no. They are dangerous but they have no other choice.
I would choose the one where the kids are wearing the blue school uniform, because it looks pretty safe to me but the only thing is they are walking to school by themselves with no grown up.
Which image interests you and why? the one in westen india because it is extradinroy how they get trough the flood.
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not? they shouldn’t because it what be dangreous in the water.
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in? none of them because there life risxing and the suetet’s what get a cold
1.i choose the cliff one because it looks interesting
2.no this one looks to dangerous.
3.i choose Pakistan because it looks safer than the others.
Which image interests you and why? The brig interest me because it is not safe” the school kids will full in the water.
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not? they yes and no because they need to go to school.
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in? the 4 image because there is no dages in it .
Which image interests you and why? The brig interest me because it is not safe” the school kids will full in the water.
Should the children be attending school in some of these conditions? Why or Why not? they yes and no because they need to go to school.
If you had to choose one image and placed yourself as the student, which country would like to walk to school in? the 4 image because there is no dags in it .