One day my father told Hidayatullah he was going back to his village for a few days. They had no interest in developing Swat. hb```e````f``fg@ ~TpNB3W)|rXxO%c!_.^w|rU+wj^I)qwlVZjEGWGG5N9ks!6y~MuK5@"]q6PC(4{PJls~ uSADZ`Q:p`&/ '}V9$1#sk@myzrsa+znn05 CQPP H P300 I (f@ ;q@$@|bfpD:[: The narrow street outside the school was totally flooded and he was soon up to his neck in water. While boys and men could roam freely about town, my mother and I could not go out without a male relative to accompany us, even if it was a five-year-old boy! My father says that in our part of the world this idea of jihad was very much encouraged by the CIA. On top of some of the peaks were ruins where vultures circled, the remains of forts built by the first wali. Often rain would then come to wash everything clean, and the clouds would linger on the green terraces of the hills where people grew radishes and walnut trees. I could see in his eyes that I had failed him. One girl commanded, Assaan bash! For the first time my mother could buy nice clothes and even send out for food as she had dreamed of doing back in the village. They are all questions that were previously asked on worksheets. I used this for a student who had to move to distance learning and it was so helpful for me. He sent my father to the government high school to learn English and receive a modern education rather than to a madrasa, even though as an imam people criticised him for this. They named it the Khushal School after one of my fathers great heroes, Khushal Khan Khattak, the warrior poet from Akora just south of Swat, who tried to unify all Pashtun tribes against the Moghuls in the seventeenth century. She was always out helping people. He committed every word to memory while walking in the hills, reciting it to the skies and birds as there was no privacy in their home. The new partners again went from door to door, telling people they had started a new kind of school. Education had been a great gift for him. After a couple of rulers who did not work out, in 1917 the chiefs settled on a man called Miangul Abdul Wadood as their king. Malala - Malala Yousafzai 2018-11-06 A chapter book edition of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai's bestselling story of courageously standing up for girls' education. When I was around four years old I asked my father, Aba, what colour are you? He replied, I dont know, a bit white, a bit black. Its like when one mixes milk with tea, I said. I would listen rapt as he told stories of warring tribes, Pashtun leaders and saints, often through poems that he read in a melodious voice, crying sometimes as he read. She was unusual in the village as she had a father and brothers who encouraged her to go to school. Lp73ZX Every night my father would pray to God, O Allah, please make war between Muslims and infidels so I can die in your service and be a martyr. For a while his Muslim identity seemed more important than anything else in his life. Sunni comes from the Arabic for one who follows the traditions of the Prophet. This unit includes a link to a Google Slides and Google Docs student work packet. An editable version, however, is included. I teased him that one of the reasons he called me Jani was because he found it easier to say than Malala. 398 0 obj <> endobj Well, look no further. On our new road there was a girl called Safina, who was a bit younger than me, and we started to play together. There are multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions. The women spent their days looking after the children and preparing food to serve to the men in their hujra upstairs. Their wives and children are still waiting for them. Soon our prisons were full of cases like that of a thirteen-year-old girl who was raped and become pregnant and was then sent to prison for adultery because she couldnt produce four male witnesses to prove it was a crime. A pink plastic headband B. For me the valley was a sunny place and I couldnt see the clouds gathering behind the mountains. We have fields of wild flowers, orchards of delicious fruit, emerald mines and rivers full of trout. My father broke the seal on the wooden storage box of maize and filled their bowls. Next to A famous poem was written at that time by Rahmat Shah Sayel, the same Peshawar poet who wrote the poem about my namesake. As a boy in Karachi he would study by the glow of street lights because there was no light at home. In colonial times our kings owed allegiance to the British but ruled their own land. "inLanguage": "en", Yet she too got angry with him once. The word Malala means grief stricken "sad," but in order to lend some happiness to it, my grandfather would always call me Malala "The happiest girl in the world" and today I am very happy that we are together fighting for an important cause. My fathers close friend Wahid Zamans brother and brother-in-law were among the many who went to Afghanistan. The school was not far from my home and I used to walk, but since the start of last year I had been going with other girls in a rickshaw and coming home by bus. 35 are multiple choice and 15 are short answer. After three months Naeem had had enough. Do you need to see if your students understood what they read? All rights are reserved by the publisher(s), author(s), and other parties involved. My father was in the school waiting and There would be bowls of chicken, rice, local spinach and spicy mutton, all cooked over the fire by the women, followed by plates of crunchy apples, slices of yellow cake and a big kettle of milky tea. Having so many people around made it hard to study. To make us wash, our aunts told stories about a scary woman called Shashaka, who would come after you with her muddy hands and stinking breath if you didnt take a bath or wash your hair, and turn you into a dirty woman with hair like rats tails filled with insects. There was really only one subject 9/11. There are 50 questions total. We all call her Bhabi now. So when we did the end-of-year exams and Malka-e-Noor came first, I was shocked. They knew he would have something interesting to say at workshops and seminars and wasnt afraid to criticise the authorities, even the army, which was now running our country. And my ankles click when I walk, which makes adults squirm. We also have the Ahl-e-Hadith (people of the Hadith), who are Salafists. I was determined it would not happen again. They dont accept our saints and shrines many Pakistanis are also mystical people and gather at Sufi shrines to dance and worship. My father says that Pakistan has been cursed with more than its fair share of politicians who only think about money. Many did, and they set off, armed with old rifles or just axes and bazookas. To her it was a modern town. My father also loved to write poetry, sometimes about love, but often on controversial themes such as honour killings and womens rights. I told my best friend Moniba everything. Occasionally we passed small marble works over streams which ran milky white with the discharge of chemicals. When he was a child he thought this small valley was the entire world and that if anyone went beyond the point where either mountain kissed the sky, they would fall off. The night before we hardly slept because we were so excited. Download I am Malala PDF for free. We have a custom called swara by which a girl can be given to another tribe to resolve a feud. That summer, while he was walking in the mountains, our dictator General Zia was killed in a mysterious plane crash, which many people said was caused by a bomb hidden in a crate of mangoes. I slept with my mother and father in one room and the other was for guests. It was a long journey by bus, then an hours walk up the hill to where he lived. It was too narrow even for a cricket pitch and only one family had a television. Creating notes and highlights requires a free LitCharts account. That afternoon, when my father came home from school, I told him about the scavenger children and begged him to go with me to look. Our own intelligence service, ISI, had virtually created the Taliban. He did not mention he could not afford to take it as he did not want to embarrass his father. My fathers elder brother Saeed Ramzan had worked for years as a teacher at a local school. Monibas speech was written by one of her older brothers. They had nowhere to sleep and no clean clothes to change into. Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. When I was little I went to the bazaar with my mother and spotted a pile of almonds on a cart. We went to school six mornings a week and as a fifteen-year-old in Year 9 my classes were spent chanting chemical equations or studying Urdu grammar; writing stories in English with morals like Haste makes waste or drawing diagrams of blood circulation most of my classmates wanted to be doctors. Many girls schools in Afghanistan are named after her. $18.74/subscription + tax, Save 25% I was different I never hid my desire when I changed from wanting to be a doctor to wanting to be an inventor or a politician. on the Internet. Iftikhar, stormed the control tower at Karachi so that Musharraf s plane could land. How long it takes will really. The Americans had already suspended most aid the year before when we conducted nuclear tests, but now almost everyone boycotted us. As a respected man in the community, my father was often called on to mediate feuds. Even the woodpeckers. answer choices. Mingora, the main city of Swat, but also those like the Taliban who think girls should not go to school. Written in en, and the ISBN13 identifiers for I Am Malala is 9780316322409 respectively. The year before I was born a group called the Taliban led by a one-eyed mullah had taken over the country and was burning girls schools. Most Pakistanis are Sunnis like us more than eighty per cent but within that we are again many groups. On our left was the tomb of Sher Mohammad Khan, the finance minister of the first ruler of Swat, all overgrown with grass, and on our right the snack factory. %PDF-1.5 % Their first child, born in 1995, was a girl and stillborn. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang. Thankfully, there are always people to ho. Teach him it is far more honourable to fail than to cheat. I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. In the winter when parents didnt want their children to stay outside in the snow they would tell the story about the lion or tiger which must always make the first step in the snow. Then he helped them save their fridge. My mother was sitting on the floor pounding spices, brightly coloured turmeric and cumin, filling the air with their aroma. mentor Akbar Khan, who although he had not gone to college himself lent my father money so he could. As his wife, she wanted to help him achieve that. Pakistan took its place. They werent particularly tasty fish. The school was doing well, and my father was building an impressive reception with an arched entrance in the boys high school. I am very proud to be a Pashtun but sometimes I think our code of conduct has a lot to answer for, particularly where the treatment of women is concerned. on the Internet. God, give me strength and courage and make me perfect because I want to make this world perfect. Each of these strands has many different subgroups. The way the content is organized, A concise biography of Malala Yousafzai plus historical and literary context for, In-depth summary and analysis of every chapter of, Explanations, analysis, and visualizations of, Malala Yousafzai was born in the town of Mingora, Pakistan to a poor but prominent Muslim family, headed by Ziauddin Yousafzai. It includes visuals to help with new vocabulary. He arrested our elected prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and had him tried for treason then hanged from a scaffold in Rawalpindi jail. Look after your own affairs. But some of the If anyone offended him, their entire family could be expelled from Swat. The journey took at least five hours by road over the Malakand Pass, a vast bowl of mountains where long ago our ancestors led by a preacher called Mullah Saidullah (known by the British as the Mad Fakir) battled British forces among the craggy peaks. A few months after I was born the three rooms above the school became vacant and we all moved in. Our founder Jinnah wanted the rights of Muslims in India to be recognised, but the majority of people in India were Hindu. In the summer months there would often be thunder and lightning crashing outside and I would crawl closer to my fathers knee. You write the speech and I will learn it. My grandfather was famous for his speeches. endstream endobj startxref My father longed for the freedom that would come with running his own school. Sometimes a group of girls would go down to the river for a picnic with pots of rice and sherbet. The treatment did not cure the stutter. We were told she had committed suicide, but we later discovered her own family had poisoned her. But she kept eyeing up the pink plastic pretend mobile phone my father had bought me, which was one of the only toys I had. Scattered up and down the hills there were houses made of wattle and daub, like my grandfathers, and these often collapsed when there were floods. We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and dont really recognise the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago. Check Pages 1-50 of I am Malala in the flip PDF version. He went there by bus, and it seemed so big to him compared to his home village that he thought hed arrived in a city. He made him wait nine months but finally agreed. Like almost all the houses in the area, it was flat-roofed and made of stone and mud. There are still many pictures of him around. In the autumn chill winds would come. Malala would no longer go to school. Moniba always knew if something was wrong. No one said anything, but several of the girls looked at me. He said he would only run the country for a short time, but no one believed him. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. If you have previously purchased my I am Malala full study unit, this assessment will mirror tho, Are you reading I am Malala in your classroom? The mufti on Khushal Street was a member of Tablighi Jamaat, a Deobandi group that holds a huge rally every year at its headquarters in Raiwind, near Lahore, attended by millions of people. Moniba tells me I squeezed her hand. His execution shocked everybody and made Pakistan look bad all around the world. The few concrete houses had been built by families whose sons or fathers had gone south to work in the mines or to the Gulf, from where they sent money home. Nasir Pacha had spent years in Saudi Arabia working in construction, making money to send back to his family. They were usually about love or being a Pashtun. Dont tell Aba, I begged. Why should a girls life be ruined to settle a dispute she had nothing to do with? They came from neighbouring villages in a remote valley Jinnah said, No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. Black-skinned people are often called white and short people tall. Is this the Khushal School bus? he asked our driver. What had prompted the attack on Zahid Khan? I am representing good Muslims and we all think your girls school is haram and a blasphemy. Was it because of the cry of a woman? When the waters receded, they found their home and school destroyed: their furniture, carpets, books, clothes and the audio system entirely caked in thick foul-smelling mud. on 2-49 accounts, Save 30% My father kept trying to persuade Naeems friends and family to stay so he could be fined too! He was an impatient man at the best of times and would fly into a rage over the smallest thing like a hen going astray or a cup getting broken. My palms were sweating and my mouth was as dry as paper. He tried desperately not to think about the treacherous consonants lying ahead of him, just waiting to trip him up and stick in his throat, but when he spoke, the words came out fluently like beautiful butterflies taking flight. That morning we arrived in the narrow mud lane off Haji Baba Road in our usual procession of brightly painted rickshaws, sputtering diesel fumes, each one crammed with five or six girls. Contact us Our men all have rifles, though these days they dont walk around with them like they do in other Pashtun areas, and my great-grandfather used to tell stories of gun battles when he was a boy. Teachers get:PDF or Digital forms of the testSelf-grading multiple choice questions (digital)Answer key for pdf and all text-dependent questionsThe choice to let students use. Look instead to your own daughter. It was in Spal Bandi that my father came across women who had great freedom and were not hidden away as in his own village. When she and her friends had discussed their dreams as young girls by the river, most had just said they wanted to marry and have children and cook for their husbands. Then we were on the main road built by the last wali, which follows the wide Swat River on the left and hugs the cliffs to the right with their emerald mines. They thought it was shameful for their children to mix with those from poor families. One year ago I left my home for school and never returned. Almonds are very costly. My mother was very upset and told my father. As he waited outside the headmasters office, he broke out into a sweat, and once inside his stutter was worse than ever. My father was very impressed by Faiz Mohammad and thought he talked a lot of sense, particularly about wanting to end the feudal and capitalist systems in our country, where the same big families had controlled things for years while the poor got poorer. He brought logs back from the mountains for firewood, and after teaching he would work in the fields where our family had a few buffaloes. My father longed to be eloquent with a voice that boomed out with no stammer, and he knew my grandfather desperately wanted him to be a doctor, but though he was a very bright student and a gifted poet, he was poor at maths and science and felt he was a disappointment. My father would make him good tea and offer him biscuits in the hope that would keep him satisfied. From the creators of SparkNotes, something better. To read online without downloading, click the "READ PDF (FREE ONLINE)" button. This is a 30 questions, multiple choice test designed for a 7th grade self-contained class. Thats why he decided he would make his father proud by entering the districts annual public speaking competition. I am inspired by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the man who some call the Frontier Gandhi, who introduced a non-violent philosophy to our culture. We lived in the most beautiful place in all the world. Their children are usually dirty and they are looked down upon by Pashtuns, even if they are poor themselves. He had thought we were done with military dictatorships. On the day only eight or nine boys and girls turned up. She didn't feel comfortable wearing her school uniform, since the uniform was a sign that she was being educated, and thus, in the Taliban's eyes, dishonoring Allah. apologised for having tormented him. There was a plum tree in our front yard which gave the most delicious fruit. An answer key and a CCSS alignment key are included as well. I came second. We were not fans of the Taliban as we had heard they destroyed girls schools and blew up giant Buddha statues we had many Buddhas of our own that we were proud of. Myanna cox Ms. Rahn-Calhoun ENG 4U1 23, Jan. 2023 Pashtun Culture and History; I Am Malala " I Am Malala " brings to light the author, Malala Yousafzai's, childhood as she advocated for girls education under grueling circumstances in a country that was at war. I slept in the long room at the front of our house, and the only furniture was a bed and a cabinet which I had bought with some of the money I had been given as an award for campaigning for peace in our valley and the right for girls to go to school. You saved this womans husband but not your own house! he said. Struggling with distance learning? The school where Uncle Khan dada taught was in the mountain village of Sewoor, about an hour and a half s climb from their house. My father consoled me by telling me about the mistakes great heroes made when they were children. You can view our. But it wasnt easy to study as there was no electricity in the village in those days. Afghanistan is less than a hundred miles away, but to get there you have to go through Bajaur, one of the tribal areas between Pakistan and the border with Afghanistan. Running a school is not a crime, he told them. He set up the first telephone system and built the first primary school and ended the wesh system because the constant moving between villages meant no one could sell land or had any incentive to build better houses or plant fruit trees. There are also 3 text-dependent questions that require more in-depth analysis. Another of my aunts had married a man in that village and they had a relative visiting called Nasir Pacha, who saw my father at work. Whats wrong, Jani? he would ask. Her dream was to be a fashion designer We have had three wars against India and what seems like endless killing inside our own country. I am Malala Test | Young Reader's Edition | Digital and PDF by Mentoring in the Middle with Marion Piersol-Miller 4.6 (43) $4.00 Zip This is a comprehensive test for the young reader's edition of Malala Yousafzai's autobiography, I am Malala. He also spoke Persian and Arabic and cared deeply for words. Jajai replaced his late mother as the most important woman in my fathers life. In Pakistan we were still under a dictatorship, but America needed our help, just as it had in the 1980s to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. How mainly do the following lines add to the development of the passage? When my grandparents came home they were furious and beat him. xSMo1U is an autobiographical book by Malala Yousafzai, co-written with Christina Lamb. Wed love to have you back! Weve got exactly what youre looking for. Like my mother, Akbar Khan may not have had much of a formal education, but he had another kind of wisdom. Use the following pop quiz to check in on your students' reading.This is a multiple choice quiz includes:16 questions from chapter 16Answers includedPlease visit https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ms-Baileys-Classroomif you're interested in future quizzes or if you're interested in using graphic organizers for your classroom.Copyright 2022 Ms Baileys classro, Are you reading I am Malala in your classroom? Even my grandfather was proud. Download I Am Malala Free PDF by Malala Yousafzai using high-speed direct download links on our site. for a customized plan. I AM MALALA The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb Weidenfeld & Nicolson LONDON Everything he drew became real. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides. We drove out of the bazaar, past the grinning red mouth signs for dentists, the carts stacked with wooden cages crammed with beady-eyed white chickens with scarlet beaks, and jewellery stores with windows full of gold wedding bangles. By then my father was becoming a well-known figure in Swat. Up there we were higher than the rocky peaks all around us. He tried to talk to them but they ran away. More books than SparkNotes. The ISIs Colonel Imam boasted he had trained 90,000 Taliban fighters and even became Pakistans consul general in Herat during the Taliban regime. Do you need to see if your students understood what they read? Wherever we lived my mother filled our house with people. Pop culture, anyone? our female hockey players wear baggy trousers instead of shorts, and stopped women playing some sports altogether. Preview this quiz on Quizizz. Everyone thought he was mad. endstream endobj 399 0 obj <> endobj 400 0 obj <>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> endobj 401 0 obj <>stream It was mentioned as the most inspiring in the closing speech, and some in the audience asked him to repeat whole stanzas and couplets, exclaiming Wah wah when a particular line pleased them, which is a bit like Bravo. It was always our mother who shopped for our clothes and took us to hospital if we were ill, even though in our culture, particularly for those of us from villages, a woman is not supposed to do these things alone. web pages Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. We too were proud, but his higher profile meant we didnt see him very much. Neither man could get any money from their families, and Hidayatullah was not pleased to discover that my father was still in debt to lots of people from college, so they were always receiving letters demanding money. With such a history, you can see why the people of Swat did not always think it was a good idea to be part of Pakistan. In Malalai we Pashtuns have our very own Joan of Arc. As this quiz is about jobs, you can easily change each question into a 'Who Am I?' question by replacing 'What' with 'Who'. Dotted around were hives of bees. Islam came to our valley in the eleventh century when Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni invaded from Afghanistan and became our ruler, but in ancient times Swat was a Buddhist kingdom. Almost two million of them were killed trying to cross the new border. Thanks so much for your purchase!!!! What had I done? The Quran teaches us sabar patience but often it feels that we have forgotten the word and think Islam means women sitting at home in purdah or wearing burqas while men do jihad. Shehnaz had never been to school, so even though she was two years older than me she was put two classes below, and she came to live with us so that I could help her. They were friends from the village. This product is a literature circle novel unit for the book, "I Am Malala." }. I need information about some children, said the man. As in most families, the girls stayed at home while the boys went to school. But He was smiling. Renews March 8, 2023 When my brothers came along and Baba wanted to pay, my father refused as he hadnt done this for me. You may have to realign some pages after downloading. By signing up you agree to our terms and privacy policy. Do you need to see if your students understood what they read? The Americans say they gave Pakistan billions of dollars to help their campaign against al-Qaeda but we didnt see a single cent. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Dear God, I wrote, I know you see everything, but there are so many things that maybe, sometimes, things get missed, particularly now with the bombing in Afghanistan. 4 The Village IN OUR TRADITION on the seventh day of a childs life we have a celebration called Woma (which means seventh) for family, friends and neighbours to come and admire the newborn. That was tough and dangerous work, and the coffins of those killed in accidents would come back several times a year. o'EuJ,0PF@oQo?>"K. Oof, I was so happy, by God, says my father. { For the first few years after graduating from Jehanzeb my father worked as an English teacher in a well-known private college. I am proud that our country was created as the worlds first Muslim homeland, but we still dont agree on what this means. My brothers liked it if we got one with F-16 fighter jets or nuclear missiles, though my father said if our politicians hadnt spent so much money on building an atomic bomb we might have had enough for schools. 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