Date:

The Taliban in Swat

Literacy Starter Activity: Suffixes

Task: Change the following words or roots by adding either the suffixes ‘-ible’
or ‘-able’.
Use your dictionary to see if you have to change the spelling of the original
word
when you attach the suffix.

adore __adorable____ elig- ____________ agree ____________ terr

____________
enjoy ____________ force ____________ poss ____________ digest
__________
excite ____________ ed- ____________

Today’s Key words:

 Date:
Because I said so…
Driving Question: Who gets to make rules and who should follow them

If you were running the country what three rules

would you impose?

• Write down your three rules and the reasons why we

should follow them.
• Be prepared to feedback and debate your rules with
the class – The three best argued rules will become law

Challenge: Why should some laws apply to some people and not others?
 Read Chapter 7 – How can we summarise Malala’s opinion to the
events taking place in her city?

The Talib leaned in the back window. His eyes bored into mine.
“Sisters,” he said to both of us, “you must wear a burqa. You are
bringing shame.” Here was a Talib with a machine gun just inches
from my face. How was I bringing shame? I wanted to ask him. I
was a child, a ten-year-old girl. A little girl who liked playing hide-
and-seek and studying science. I was angry, but I knew it would do
no good to try to reason with him. I knew I should have been
afraid, but I only felt frustration.
1. Who is involved?
Focusing either on the whole chapter 2. What is happening?
or the section above answer the 'Prose 3. Why is it interesting or
Detective' questions important?
4. How does Malala feel
about the Taliban?

Challenge Question: Why does Malala feel this sense of frustration? Is she right to do so?
Driving Question: Who gets to make rules and who should follow them
 Summarise the events in this chapter that show women are
being repressed as a gender
Event How is it showing Women are Supporting Quote
repressed
10 year old Even children are being treated in “you must wear a burqa. You
girls are told the same way as the adult women are bringing shame.”
to wear are treated. They are treated
burqas differently to the boys

Challenge Question: Add a column and include how Malala feels about each act of
repression

Driving Question: Who gets to make rules and who should follow them
Driving Question: Why might someone try and stop you from going to school?

Plenary discussion: Can you think of a law which is

acceptable to set for women and not men?

Feedback and be prepared to defend your reasoning

Driving Question: Who gets to make rules and who should follow them