In my experience, if my father couldnt help with matters like these, there was only one option. We would dress in our finest clothes and pile into the Flying Coach, a minibus with brightly painted panels and jangling chains, and drive north to Barkana, our family village in Shangla. With just one click, you can post this assessment to your classroom web page. The girls would use a different gate from the men. My mother was worried about telling him he had a daughter not a son, but he says he looked into my eyes and was delighted. He believed that lack of education was the root of all Pakistans problems. 2023 - All rights reserved - PDFWhale.com, Elon Musk Tesla Spacex And The Quest For A Fantastic Future, In Order To Live A North Korean Girls Journey To Freedom. My grandfather had studied in India, where he had seen great speakers and leaders including Mohammad Ali Jinnah (the founder of Pakistan), Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, our great Pashtun leader who campaigned for independence. This was a dark time in Malala 's life: the country was in chaos, and she felt unsafe in her own town. Musharraf built a mansion by Rawal Lake in Islamabad and bought an apartment in London. But I dont think you would be happy if you saw the children on my road living on a rubbish dump. My 9th grade special needs Literature class enjoyed reading "I am Malala" the young readers edition. To try and boost their income they ran a tuck shop at school, going off in the mornings and buying snacks to sell to the children. Nawaz Sharif was so worried about his reaction that he tried to stop the plane from landing in Pakistan. It happened in a manner so dramatic that it sounds like something out of a movie. It would be better to plead, OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. The Americans had already suspended most aid the year before when we conducted nuclear tests, but now almost everyone boycotted us. Here a girl can go to school, I used to say. Like him I was born double-jointed and can bend my fingers right back on themselves. I wanted him to be proud of me, like he was when I was presented with the first-in-year trophies at school. It was thought this would then keep rival clans from fighting. I shared my room with my cousin Aneesa from the village, who had come to live with us so she could go to school, and a girl called Shehnaz whose mother Sultana had once worked in our house. Click on that, rate the product and leave a comment. My father remembers that one day a maulana called Sufi Mohammad came to the village and asked young men to join him to fight the Russians in the name of Islam. My fathers involvement in political discussions continued after college. Be kind to your mother-in-law and father-in-law so they treat you well. Many ISI officers were close to its leaders, having known them for years, and shared some of their beliefs. So when a new girl named Malka-e-Noor joined our class, I didnt think anything of it. He promised he would make his own assets and tax return public. Spit it out, son! hed roar whenever my father got stuck in the middle of a sentence. Luckily, a neighbour called Mr Aman-ud-din took them in for the night. Two planes had flown into it. Thankfully, there are always people to ho. And my ankles click when I walk, which makes adults squirm. I would get very depressed and sometimes collapse seeing the problems all around us, said Hidayatullah, but when Ziauddin is in a crisis he becomes strong and his spirits high. My father insisted that they needed to think big. Anyone reading them might think we won the three wars we have fought and lost against our great enemy India. Anyone could see that Musharraf was double-dealing, taking American money while still helping the jihadis strategic assets, as the ISI calls them. Sometimes a group of girls would go down to the river for a picnic with pots of rice and sherbet. I loved the gloopy honey, which we ate with walnuts. But I think that if someone kills your brother, you shouldnt kill them or their brother, you should teach them instead. Millions of Muslims crossed from India, and Hindus travelled in the other direction. Then vice versa. Well, look no further. other two bullets hit the girls next to me. The competition was always between me and my best friend Moniba, who had beautiful writing and presentation, which the examiners liked, but I knew I could beat her on content. They dont care if the army is actually flying the plane, they are happy to stay out of the cockpit and sit in business class, close the curtains and enjoy the fine food and service while the rest of us are squashed in economy. My dream was coming true. Naeem and my father invested their entire savings of 60,000 rupees. My mother took me to say sorry to Safina and her parents. 5 Why I Dont Wear Earrings and Pashtuns Dont Say Thank You BY THE AGE of seven I was used to being top of my class. The walls were concrete and there was running water so it was an improvement on our muddy shack, but we were still very cramped as we were sharing it with Hidayatullah and we almost always had guests. The plan was to get his school going then, once it was successful, send for his wife. A woman named Shahida who worked for us and had three small daughters, told me that when she was only ten years old her father had sold her to an old man who already had a wife but wanted a younger one. He remembered how mystified he had been by the river in his village, wondering where the water came from and went to, until he learned about the water cycle from the rain to the sea. He ended by asking in a thundering voice my grandfather would have been proud of, Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? We have many strands of Islam in Pakistan. Most Pashtun men never do this, as sharing problems with women is seen as weak. When my father was at home, he and his friends sat on the roof at dusk and talked politics endlessly. My relatives would ask me, Would you like to cook chicken for us? and Id say, No, the chicken is innocent. This test does NOT include a digital version. 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. Hidayatullah was furious. None of the older women had any education but they all told stories and recited what we call tapey, Pashto couplets. 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. I Am Malala Final Test (Young Readers Edition) by Jennifer Tollefson 4.6 (45) $3.50 Word Document File This is the final test for the young readers edition of I am Malala. Before the troubles came, most people, like my mother, had never been outside Swat. You are the ones educating their children. He soon became president of the organisation and expanded it until it included 400 principals. If you do not fall in the battle of Maiwand then, by God, someone is saving you as a symbol of shame. Malalai was killed under fire, but her words and bravery inspired the men to turn the battle around. 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. Sometimes I sat on the roof too, watching the smoke rise from the cooking fires all around and listening to the nightly racket of the crickets. My father kept trying to persuade Naeems friends and family to stay so he could be fined too! He was a mesmerising speaker. 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. Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes). Thats when he lifted up a black pistol. They take out loans from state banks but they dont pay them back. In our culture speeches are usually written by our fathers, uncles or teachers. We couldnt see in front, but a young bearded man in light-coloured clothes had stepped into the road and waved the van down. I AM MALALA The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb Weidenfeld & Nicolson LONDON 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. If anyone offended him, their entire family could be expelled from Swat. I dont know how they can live with their consciences when they see our people going hungry or sitting in the darkness of endless power cuts, or children unable to go to school as their parents need them to work. The boys would fish using earthworms threaded like beads on a string hanging from a long stick. 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. One day it disappeared. emperor win back his throne after his own tribe removed him. 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. Earn TpT credits to use for future purchases! As we got older the village began to seem boring. He had thought we were done with military dictatorships. For the first few years after graduating from Jehanzeb my father worked as an English teacher in a well-known private college. Sometimes we went up to the mountains and sometimes down to the river on family trips. Prologue: The Day my World Changed I COME FROM a country which was created at midnight. Answer key is included. 14 day loan required to access PDF files. As the day went on and the sun climbed higher in the sky, more and more of the White Mountain would be bathed in golden sun. Iftikhar, stormed the control tower at Karachi so that Musharraf s plane could land. Some filters moved to Formats filters, which is at the top of the page. I close my eyes and for a moment I am back in my valley the high snow-topped mountains, green waving fields and fresh blue rivers and my heart smiles when it looks at the people of Swat. Every year Shias commemorate the killing of the Prophets grandson Hussein Ibn Ali at the battle of Karbala in the year 680 with a festival called Muharram. If it has three teachers, each goes in for just two days. My parents say I have qualities of both grandfathers humorous and wise like my mothers father and vocal like my fathers father! PART FIVE: A SECOND LIFE 23 The Girl Shot in the Head, Birmingham 24 They have snatched her smile Epilogue: One Child, One Teacher, One Book, One Pen . It is a very beautiful letter, full of good advice. They glimpsed enough of each other to know they liked one another, but for us it is taboo to express such things. Young love! she shouted. Bin Laden and his men fled to the White Mountains of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan, where he had built a network of tunnels while fighting the Russians. A woman couldnt even open a bank account without a mans permission. PDF download. This was the tradition. They had no idea how they would manage. You write the speech and I will learn it. My grandfather was famous for his speeches. Khalida had been sold into marriage to an old man who used to beat her, and eventually she ran away with her three daughters. s_8dTNR^NyR~>7XQA The women would gather at the house of the dead mans wife or mother and a terrible wailing would start and echo round the valley, which made my skin crawl. Even my grandfather went. We dont respect privacy and there is no such thing as making an appointment to see someone. By entering your email address you agree to receive emails from SparkNotes and verify that you are over the age of 13. He held a big meeting in Malakand, where our ancestors had fought the British. On Pakistans fiftieth anniversary on 14 August 1997 there were parades and commemorations throughout the country. This is a Herculean task, he added. Find related themes, quotes, symbols, characters, and more. The Russian invasion transformed Zia from an international pariah to the great defender of freedom in the Cold War. We have had three wars against India and what seems like endless killing inside our own country. My grandfather, Janser Khan, had been listening to Radio Afghanistan just before she was born and heard the name. Since that day I have never lied or stolen. And me, her beauty, he laughs. Baba was such a popular and passionate speaker that he could have been a great leader if he had been more diplomatic and less consumed by rivalries with cousins and others who were better off. I didnt take them. But she knew I had. Wherever we lived my mother filled our house with people. Her father said nothing. He wanted to encourage independent thought and hated the way the school he was at rewarded obedience above open- mindedness and creativity. Once there, all they do is keep the children quiet with a long stick as they cannot imagine education will be any use to them. You could say I grew up in a school. It was around the time he was praying to go to heaven as a martyr that he met my mothers brother, Faiz Mohammad, and started mixing with her family and going to her fathers hujra. We taught this text as an independent study and discussed the bigger ideas in cl. Even though he was not a khan or a rich man, people listened to him. A. She says he didnt even notice, as he would set off early every morning after a breakfast of cornbread and cream, his German pistol strapped under his arm, and spend his days busy with local politics or resolving feuds. Wed be expected to cook and serve our brothers and fathers. Hed boast, Ziauddin is a shaheen a falcon because this is a creature that flies high above other birds. You can cut this assessment up into 2 chapter quizzes excluding chapter 15 (i.e. When it was my mothers turn she said, I want to live in the city and be able to send out for kebabs and naan instead of cooking it myself. However, life wasnt quite what she expected. He said that the Taliban had even banned women from laughing out loud or wearing white shoes as white was a colour that belonged to men. The last few shops as we headed north out of Mingora were wooden shacks that seemed to lean on each other, in front of which were piles of reconditioned tyres for the bad roads ahead. They had no interest in developing Swat. Then he climbed up so he could catch hold of the star of Jupiter as a symbol of his power. My mother gave birth to ten children in this way. The school continued to lose money. You are not running brothels; you are educating children! But many Pashtuns did not like the bombing of Afghanistan or the way Pakistan was helping the Americans, even if it was only by allowing them to cross our airspace and stopping weapons supplies to the Taliban. Everyone wanted me in their family as I was from Mingora and modern. Pashtuns are a proud people of many tribes split between Pakistan and Afghanistan. When my brothers came along and Baba wanted to pay, my father refused as he hadnt done this for me. Pashtuns cannot stand anyone belittling them, nor was he about to pay a bribe for something he was entitled to. When a villager complained to her that he was flirting with a girl living across the road, she defended him. All three brothers were killed. They also said it wasnt up to us to sort out the problem. Around that time we moved away from where we had been living on the same street as Moniba to an area where I didnt have any friends. As my father was still teaching, Naeem wandered the streets looking for somewhere to rent. The ISI chief asked the Americans to hold off their attack on Afghanistan until he had gone to Kandahar to ask the Taliban leader Mullah Omar to hand over bin Laden; instead he offered the Taliban help. But after a while the school started to break even and my father began to plan a second school, which he wanted to call the Malala Education Academy. Thats how we think of each other. 412 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<1E14FC240D7FA4478A45ABC27DCF6DCF>]/Index[398 27]/Info 397 0 R/Length 79/Prev 290687/Root 399 0 R/Size 425/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream We have a saying: The Pashtun took revenge after twenty years and another said it was taken too soon. We are a people of many sayings. Now we are a country of 180 million and more than 96 per cent are Muslim. At the back of the house was a veranda where the women gathered. :)This product now includes the Microsoft PowerPoint version of the unit so you may edit it, as needed. The going rate for registration was about 13,000 rupees, more if they thought you were rich. My fathers close friend Wahid Zamans brother and brother-in-law were among the many who went to Afghanistan. View all The village received no electricity from the government so many villagers got their power from these makeshift hydroelectric projects. There are a total of 195 pages in this PDF and it will take the average reader approximately 5.53 hours to read from start to finish. Free trial is available to new customers only. But it was almost certainly made worse by his father, whose own voice was a soaring instrument that could make words thunder and dance. Somehow I thought it needed to go deep into the earth, so first I buried it in the garden. 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