For an activity after reading A Long Walk to Water, students can role-play and interview their classmates in order to solve the mystery of who broke the water pump in a village in Southern Sudan. This activity includes teacher directions, instructions for orchestrating the activity, teacher notes for all the characters, the character cards to be assembled, a sheet for student notes, a map of the village, and a guessing sheet. This is a great way to get students up and moving, conversing with the