Teachers College: July 2018

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Aug 13--Chapter 33 "This New Place"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: Describe how Malala explained life in Birmingham.

Question 2: What did the man say to Malala's dad while they were out?
Question 3: How was Malala's school different? Compare and contrast the school in Birmingham and Pakistan?
Question 4: How was Malala's life different from most teenagers? What did she have to do?
Question 5: Describe what you thought while looking at the pictures?

Level 1: Answer 2 out of 5 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 2 sentences).
Level 2: Answer 3 out of 5 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 3 sentences).
Level 3: Answer 4 out of 5 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 2 sentences).

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Aug 10--Chapter 32 "Miracles"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What year did Malala get released from the hospital?

Question 2: What did Malala miss?
Question 3: How did people back at home feel about Malala? Did they criticize her? Or support her?
Question 4: How did Malala do on the exam on the day she was shot?
Question 5: Describe the surgeries Malala had to have.

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Aug 8--Chapter 30 "Message from Around the World"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How would you feel if so many people knew you?

Question 2: Would you have done the same thing as Malala? Would you spoke against injustice?

Level 1: Answer 1 out of 2 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 2 sentences).
Level 2: Answer 1 out of 2 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 3 sentences).
Level 3: Answer 2 out of 2 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 2 sentences).

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Aug 7--Chapter 29 "Filling In the Blanks"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How long had Malala been separated from her family?

Question 2: How many and which countries had Malala traveled to in order to save her life?
Question 3: Did Malala's mom blame her father for the shooting? What and who did she say was responsible?
Question 4: Did they find who shot Malala? Who did they put in jail?
Question 5: What lesson had Malala's father learned from this?

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Aug 6--Chapter 28 "We Are All Here Now"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How did Malala's family react when they saw her for the first time?

Question 2: Did Malala's father feel guilty that Malala was shot? Why?
Question 3: How did Malala feel about her face after the shooting?

Level 1: Answer 1 out of 3 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 2 sentences).
Level 2: Answer 2 out of 3 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 3 sentences).
Level 3: Answer 3 out of 3 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 2 sentences).

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Aug 3--Chapter 27 "Passing the Hours"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: Who came to see Malala at the beginning of the chapter? What did she want?

Question 2: What were Malala's 2 demands?
Question 3: What did Malala do while she was bored?
Question 4: What hard thing was on Malala's tummy?
Question 5: Describe what Malala's journey was like from Pakistan to Birmingham?

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Aug 2--Chapter 26 "A Hundred Questions"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What was the name of Malala's doctor?

Question 2: Where was Malala shot?
Question 3: What were the black dots on her hand and near her temple?
Question 4: What was the most important question to Malala?

Level 1: Answer 2 out of 4 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 2 sentences).
Level 2: Answer 3 out of 4 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 3 sentences).
Level 3: Answer 4 out of 4 questions. Please answer in complete sentences (at least 2 sentences).

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Aug 1--Chapter 25 "Problems, Solutions"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What did Malala want to do to her teeth?

Question 2: Was the teddy bear white or green? Why?
Question 3: What was Malala concerned about while she was at the hospital?
Question 4: Why do you think Malala was so worried about paying for her stay at the hospital?
Question 5: Why do you think the doctor told Malala and her father not to cry?

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July 31--Chapter 24 "A Place called Birmingham"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What happened to Malala?

Question 2: Where was she?
Question 3: Where was her father?
Question 4: What did the nurse give her?
Question 5: Why do you think she kept asking for her father but not her mother?

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July 30--Chapter 23 "A day like any other"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What exam was Malala taking that day?

Question 2: What did Malala eat for breakfast that day?
Question 3: What is position Atal and Malala arguing about?
Question 4: What is dyna?
Question 5: What happened in the bus?

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Monday, July 23, 2018

July 27--Chapter 22 "Omens"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How old was Malala at this time?

Question 2: How did Malala feel being 15 years old?
Question 3: What did Malala want to be?
Question 4: What were her goals?
Question 5: What are your goals?

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July 26--Chapter 21 "The Promise of Spring"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What did Malala's mother learn to do?

Question 2: When did Malala's mother go to school?
Question 3: What did they do during the spring?
Question 4: What did the letter say?
Question 5: Who do you think wrote the letter?

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July 25--Chapter 20 "A Death Threat against Me"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: Who had put out a death threat against Malala?

Question 2: How did Malala find out about this?
Question 3: How did Malala react to the news?
Question 4: How did Malala's father react to the news?
Question 5: How would you react to a death threat against your life?

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July 24--Chapter 19 "Good News at Last"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What good news did Malala receive in the beginning of chapter 19?

Question 2: How would you feel if you had Malala's good news? Tell me about a time when you've won something.

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July 23--Chapter 18 "A Humble Request"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What were some of the 9 resolutions? (pg. 108)

Question 2: By early 2011, what kind of damage had the Taliban done?
Question 3: What were Malala's feelings towards the Taliban?

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Monday, July 16, 2018

July 20--Chapter 16 "Displaced" & 17 "Home"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How did Malala and her brother, Atal, feel about leaving their home?

Question 2: How old was Atal?
Question 3: What does IDP stand for? (Hint: answer is on page 99).
Question 4: How did Malala feel at the conference? Did she feel Pakistan will get help?
Question 5: Upon returning to their home, what had changed?

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July 19--Chapter 14 "Secret School" & 15 "Peace?"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What were the lessons Malala learned while watching Ugly Betty?

Question 2: What games were children playing because of the war?
Question 3: What is your opinion of Madame Maryam?

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July 18--Chapter 11 "A Chance to Speak" & 12 "A Girl's Diary"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How were the people speaking out?

Question 2: What did the girls say when the Pasho TV arrived?
Question 3: If you were Malala, what would you do? Would you speak out or stay quiet?
Question 4: What happened to girls in this chapter?
Question 5: Let's go back to a question when discussed during the first week of summer, are men and women treated equally?

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July 17--Chapter 9 "Candy from the Sky" & 10 "2008: What terrorism feels like"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: Why is chapter 9 titled "candy from the sky"?

Question 2: Describe the bombings.
Question 3: Quickly write about how you would feel if this was happening in New York.
Question 4: What would you do?
Question 5: What is the difference between terrorism and war?

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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

July 16--Chapter 7 "Taliban in SWAT" & 8 "No one is safe"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: Describe some of the changes happening in the valley Malala lives in? For example, what has the Green square become.

Question 2: How and what does Malala's father feel and do about the changes happening in their village?
Question 3: How was it affecting the people of SWAT?
Question 4: Did Malala's father stay quiet or speak out?
Question 5: What happened to the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan?

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Aug 9--Chapter 31 "A Bittersweet Day"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How long was Malala's surgery? What types of exercises did she have to do?

Question 2: When was her first trip outside? What did she do?
Question 3: Who was her first visitor (besides her family)? What happened?

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Monday, July 9, 2018

July 13--Chapter 6 "Radio Mullah"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What changes were happening? How did the people feel about the changes?

Question 2: Describe the teachings of Radio Mullah
Question 3: What is haram? What is a burqa?
Question 4: What did the radio tell the people to do based on the haram?
Question 5: How does Malala describe the Taliban?

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July 12--Chapter 5 "First Direct Threat"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What is a mufti?

Question 2: What was the conflict between the mufti and Malala's father?
Question 3: What was Malala's opinion of mufti and his beliefs? Did she agree or disgree and why?
Question 4: How did Malala feel about school? What did she compare it to?
Question 5: What is the new girls name? How did Malala feel about her?

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July 11--Chapter 4 "A Warning from God"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: What happened in the beginning of the chapter? Does it happen often?

Question 2: Who is Malala's favorite teacher? Who is your favorite teacher and why?
Question 3: What did Malala's parent do? When did the earthquake occur?
Question 4: What does TNSM stand for? Who are they?
Question 5: What does the TNSM do?

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July 10--Chapter 3 :A Magic Pencil"

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How many students did Malala's father had by this time she was 8 years old?

Question 2: What show gave Malala the idea of a magic pencil?
Question 3: What could the pencil do?
Question 4: What did Malala and her mother do to help the poor?
Question 5: What started to happen with student enrollment (1st paragraph on the last page of the chapter)?

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July 9--Chapter 2

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: Where did she go visit in the beginning of the chapter?

Question 2: What is Malala's cousin think of her? Country girl or city girl?
Question 3: What is their favorite game to play with the other girls?
Question 4: How were women seen? How did Malala feel about her mother?

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Friday, July 6, 2018

July 6--Chapter 1

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: How many siblings (brothers or sisters) does Malala have?

Question 2: Where does she live?
Question 3: What does she like? What is her favorite color?
Question 4: How does she describe herself?
Question 5: How would you describe her? Compare and contrast her likes and dislikes to yours.

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July 5th--First Day of school

This will be our novel during this summer of 2018!

Please click onto the video to get a general idea of who Malala is and why she is so significant!

Homework: Please answer the questions below based on your level--remember continue to challenge yourself!

Question 1: Who is Malala Yousafzai?

Question 2: What happened to her?
Question 3: Why do you think she was shot?
Question 4: Do you think she is brave? Why?
Question 5: Would you have done the same thing? Or how would you have done things differently than her?

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