Date:

Life without School

Literacy Starter Activity: Speech Marks

Task: Sometimes quotation marks are used to show a nickname or a false
title. For example: Mike “Kid Dynamite” Tyson is a boxer.
Punctuate the following sentences.
1) The North Carolina Tarheels are playing the Duke Blue Devils in basketball
tonight.
2) Nat King Cole is not really a king in the literal sense.
3) Richard The Flash Thomas is racing his car tonight.
Now write your own sentence using quotation marks to refer to nicknames
and false titles.

Today’s Key words:

 Date:
Life without School?
Driving Question: Why do some children want to go to school?

Discuss: If you were building your own school what

would it be like?

Things you could discuss…

• What sort of teachers would you employ (if any)?
• What subjects would be taught?
• How would you maintain discipline?

Challenge: What do you think the most difficult part of running a school
is and why?
 Imagine

Imagine a world where you didn’t have to go to school’

What would be the positives of What would be the negatives of never going to
such a world? school?

Challenge Question: Are there any points that could fit as a positive
and a negative? If so what are they and why could they be seen as
both?
Driving Question: Why do some children want to go to school?
 Reading: Chapter 3
Read Chapter 3 – The magic pencil’

Task 1: List all the things Malala’s family do to help

everyone achieve an education
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Challenge Question: Why do Malala’s family see it as their

responsibility to help others?

Driving Question: Why do some children want to go to school?

 Reading: Chapter 3
Read Chapter 3 – The magic pencil’
Task 2: Read the passage below and answer the questions in a
paragrapj

“I asked him why they weren’t in school. He told me

that these children were supporting their families,
selling whatever they found for a few rupees; if they
went to school, their families would go hungry. As we
walked back home, I saw tears on his cheek.”
• How does Malala’s father feel about the fate of these children?
• Which words tell us this?
• Why do you think he feels this way?
• What message might his actions and this experience convey to
Malala?

Driving Question: Why do some children want to go to school?

Driving Question: Why do some children want to go to school?

“He was showing me what my life might be like if I

couldn’t go to school.”

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

reading and your own knowledge why do some
children want to go to school?

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

Driving Question: Why do some children want to go to school?