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Reading Lesson

Literacy Starter Activity: Speech Marks

Write a conversation between two people about their different
views on going to school
Use correct speech punctuation.

Today’s Key words:

 Date:
I knew it! School really is evil!
Driving Question: Why might someone try and stop you from going to
school?
Discuss: With the person sat next to you try and
come up with a realistic situation where one of the
following people might stop you going to school

• Your parents
• A teacher
• A Politician
• A religious figure

Challenge: Is there anyone who deserves to be denied an education? – Why?

 Read Chapter 4 – Consider the following
Eventually the government tried to help, and aid from the Americans
(who had troops and helicopters in nearby Afghanistan) made it in. But
most of the volunteers and medical help came from organizations that
were linked with militant groups like the TNSM. They helped clear and
rebuild destroyed villages. They led prayers and buried bodies. They
took in many of the eleven thousand orphaned children. In our culture,
orphans are usually adopted by the extended family, but the
earthquake had been so bad that entire families had been wiped out or
lost everything and were in no position to care for additional children.
Many of the orphans went to live in fundamentalist madrasas.

• What do you think Malala’s views are about the government

and its actions after the earthquake?
• What do you think Malala’s views are about the organisations
that were quicker to help.

Challenge Question: What are the different possible motives for these groups to act
and help? Try and think of as many as possible

Driving Question: Why might someone try and stop you from going to school?
 Read Chapter 5 – Consider the following
My school was a heaven. Because inside the Khushal School,
we flew on wings of knowledge. In a country where women
aren’t allowed out in public without a man, we girls travelled
far and wide inside the pages of our books. In a land where
many women can’t read the prices in the markets, we did
multiplication. In a place where, as soon as we were teenagers,
we’d have to cover our heads and hide ourselves from the boys
who’d been our childhood playmates, we ran as free as the
wind.

• What do you think Malala’s views are about her school

• What do you think Malala’s views are about who should be
entitled to school
• How does Malala feel about how girls are treated compared
to men?

Challenge Question: What, if anything, do you disagree with Malala about?

Driving Question: Why might someone try and stop you from going to school?
 Driving Question: Why might someone try and stop you from going to school?

“How could a place where I learned so much and

laughed so much be bad?”

Answer today’s Driving Question – Based on today’s

reading and your own knowledge why do some people
try and prevent others from getting an education

Challenge: Add quotations from the chapter to help prove your point

Driving Question: Why might someone try and stop you from going to school?