I remembered the story of my father surprising my grandfather and longed to do the same. While most of us cant live with our wives, he couldnt be without his. Within a few months my mother was expecting. This assessment has 40 questions on it (mostly multiple choice, a few fill in the blanks, and two short answer responses). 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. In Pashtun society it is very hard to stomach a cousin being more popular, wealthier or more influential than you are. Shame is a very terrible thing for a Pashtun man. It started a massive programme to train Afghan refugees recruited from the camps as resistance fighters or mujahideen. Nobody can marry a widow without the permission of her family. My clothes were often from shops and not home-made like theirs. Malik Janser Khan refused the proposal, but my father is a stubborn man and persuaded my grandfather to send the barber again. Near us on our street there was a family with a girl my age called Safina and two boys similar in age to my brothers, Babar and Basit. Answer key is included. In the autumn chill winds would come. These clerics said 9/11 was revenge on the Americans for what they had been doing to other people round the world, but they ignored the fact that the people in the World Trade Center were innocent and had nothing to do with He even asks his wife! they say as an insult. When I saw him disappear down there I would cry, thinking he wouldnt come back. It didnt matter. Check Pages 1-50 of I am Malala in the flip PDF version. Since Id started speaking at events with my father to campaign for girls education and against those like the Taliban who want to hide us away, journalists often came, even foreigners, though not like this in the road. I kept seeing the dirty face of the girl from the dump and continued to pester my father to give them places at our school. I remember that inside the dyna it was hot and sticky. In my dreams about the shooting my father is also in the bus and he is shot with me, and then there are men everywhere and I am searching for my father. My father often used to recite the poem to me when I was a child but I didnt know then what it meant. He was recognised by the British as the head of state in 1926 and installed as wali, which is our word for ruler. Get Annual Plans at a discount when you buy 2 or more! 14 day loan required to access PDF files. The goldsmith kept coming and demanding his money for my mothers wedding bangles. Anyone could see that Musharraf was double-dealing, taking American money while still helping the jihadis strategic assets, as the ISI calls them. This is one of the best books in the Biography & Autobiography genre(s). You should have set an example. I started crying and apologised over and over again. Suddenly he was being invited to the White House by George W. Bush and to 10 Downing Street by Tony Blair. TPT empowers educators to teach at their best. We were once a princely state, one of three with the neighbouring lands of Chitral and Dir. Her own family would not take her back because it is believed that a woman who has left her husband has brought shame on her family. He was an impatient man at the best of times and would fly into a rage over the smallest thing like a hen going astray or a cup getting broken. 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. It was too narrow even for a cricket pitch and only one family had a television. My palms were sweating and my mouth was as dry as paper. He tried desperately not to think about the treacherous consonants lying ahead of him, just waiting to trip him up and stick in his throat, but when he spoke, the words came out fluently like beautiful butterflies taking flight. 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. Our founder Jinnah wanted the rights of Muslims in India to be recognised, but the majority of people in India were Hindu. Our ancestors came to Swat in the sixteenth century from Kabul, where they had helped a Timurid This product is a literature circle novel unit for the book, "I Am Malala." He made him wait nine months but finally agreed. Billions of dollars flowed into our exchequer from the United States and other Western countries, as well as weapons to help the ISI train the Afghans to fight the communist Red Army. As the Yousafzai in Swat had no ruler, there were constant feuds between the khans and even within their own families. The Taliban have never come for a small girl. When our bus was called, we ran down the steps. The jirga decided that the widowers family should be punished by handing over their most beautiful girl to be married to the least eligible man of the rival clan. He tried to talk to them but they ran away. It was a perfect night with stars and a full moon just above the trees, which he took to be a sign. He promised he would make his own assets and tax return public. "I Am Malala. He laughed. the government for schools which never saw a single pupil. If I can help support one or two children and another family supports one or two then between us we can help them all. Find more similar flip PDFs like I am Malala. Our favourite game was weddings. Study Guides. He did not mention he could not afford to take it as he did not want to embarrass his father. We raced around, building snowmen and snow bears and trying to catch If he drew a vegetable or a policeman, the vegetable or policeman would magically appear. }, Instead they used the buildings for their hujras or even to keep their animals. The important thing is what you learn from it. Iftikhar, stormed the control tower at Karachi so that Musharraf s plane could land. They said the Americans always preferred dealing with dictators in Pakistan. Who is Malala? With such a history, you can see why the people of Swat did not always think it was a good idea to be part of Pakistan. All his books were inscribed with other boys names, never his own. There are multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions. We have a special history too. ! I was only four and too young to understand. 1. He tried to explain that those children were breadwinners so if they went to school, even for free, the whole family would go hungry. Contact us I wanted to talk to the children but I was too scared. This pdf file is kept under the category of Stories & Novels pdf files. At the time General Musharraf was on a plane of our national airline PIA coming back from Sri Lanka. on June 16, 2021, There are no reviews yet. Some were in the newspapers, some were notes or messages passed on by people. Click on that, rate the product and leave a comment. Foreigners call them suicide bridges but we loved them. on 50-99 accounts. Malala is a genius girl, my class fellows would say. Even my grandfather was proud. They say he was the first Pakistani leader to stand up for the common people, though he himself was a feudal lord with vast estates of mango fields. But I was more concerned with matters closer to home our own street to be exact. He and his family lived with my grandfather, and whenever he saved up enough of his salary, they built a small concrete hujra at the side of the house for guests. Includes a key as well as page numbers for each answer from the hardback edition of her work! We have a funny sense of humour. When I was around four years old I asked my father, Aba, what colour are you? He replied, I dont know, a bit white, a bit black. Its like when one mixes milk with tea, I said. He found himself torn between the two extremes, secularism and socialism on one side and militant Islam on the other. Pakistan took its place. In the winter when parents didnt want their children to stay outside in the snow they would tell the story about the lion or tiger which must always make the first step in the snow. The questions do tend to test whether the student read the text or not. No one I knew had been to Islamabad. My father and a friend had founded their first school and we lived in a shabby shack of two rooms opposite the school. You are the ones educating their children. He soon became president of the organisation and expanded it until it included 400 principals. My father was angry. The man was astonished and In olden times Swat was called Uddyana, which means garden. If it was anything serious they would have to make the long bus journey to Mingora unless they were lucky enough to know someone with a car. Mingora, the main city of Swat, but also those like the Taliban who think girls should not go to school. Their first child, born in 1995, was a girl and stillborn. This award is not just for me. Written in en, and the ISBN13 identifiers for I Am Malala is 9780316322409 respectively. We regard Mians as noble or landed people, but Gujars and Kohistanis are what we call hilly people, peasants who look after buffaloes. You are not running brothels; you are educating children! Description if Malala's injuries Shot in the head, missed the brain but shattered the bone around it and pushed bone fragments into the brain causing it to swell, deaf in her ear, the left side of her face . Children sometimes froze to death in winter. A. My parents first child was stillborn but I popped out kicking and screaming. These girls should be in purdah. He told her, Take this building back from him and I will rent it for my madrasa. To be torn from the country that you love is not something to wish on anyone. Shangla is all mountain, mountain, mountain and just a small sky. That was tough and dangerous work, and the coffins of those killed in accidents would come back several times a year. Many ISI officers were close to its leaders, having known them for years, and shared some of their beliefs. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban. Luckily, a neighbour called Mr Aman-ud-din took them in for the night. But we always come together against outsiders who try to conquer our lands. 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. But, as I watched my brothers running across the roof, flying their kites and skilfully flicking the strings back and forth to cut each others down, I wondered how free a daughter could ever be. I was also known for participating in everything badminton, drama, cricket, art, even singing, though I wasnt much good. My mother had been waiting for a son and could not hide her joy when he was born. This made my father cross. Pashtuns cannot stand anyone belittling them, nor was he about to pay a bribe for something he was entitled to. Why should I lose my character for a few metal trinkets? PDF download. 398 0 obj
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The Buddhists had arrived here in the second century and their kings ruled the valley for more than 500 years. I knew it was pointless appealing to Musharraf. Her hair was matted and her skin was covered in sores. This item was made using Google Forms. The other principals took paying bribes for granted, but my father argued that if all the schools joined together they could resist. The pencil was never there, but I knew who I would help first. We still had little money and my mother checked her purse to see what she had. Save over 50% with a SparkNotes PLUS Annual Plan! The highest mountain of all is the pyramid-shaped Mount Elum. My father was known in the family as Khaista dada, which means beautiful. We would sit on the floor around a long plastic sheet which my mother laid with food, and eat with our right hand as is our custom, balling together rice and meat. . Only twice had I not come top both times when I was beaten by my class rival Malka e-Noor. 2. Musharraf built a mansion by Rawal Lake in Islamabad and bought an apartment in London. The shop would then sell it on at a profit. TPT empowers educators to teach at their best. Want 100 or more? Where did you get that? I asked. God, give me strength and courage and make me perfect because I want to make this world perfect. Share to Twitter. Some sample questions from the test are included below:Which of these quotes would most like, This assessment has a variety of different questions (multiple choice, fill in the blank, ordering, etc.). Your group members can use the joining link below to redeem their group membership. I think of her as my big sister even though I am six months older than her. When my father was offered a place for his A Levels at Jehanzeb College, which is the best further education institution in Swat, my grandfather refused to pay for his living expenses. He and Hidayatullah hardly had money to pay for food, let alone bribes. Moniba and I longed to be like her and studied her carefully. My brothers loved this, and they would taunt me and my mother by pointing out the wreckage of vehicles on the mountainside. Written in en, and the ISBN13 identifiers for I Am Malala is 9780316322409 respectively. They were both away when, ten days later, there was a second flood and the building again filled with mud. My father would get angry sometimes he would arrive home at lunchtime and call out, Tor Pekai, Im home! only to find she was out and there was no lunch for him. I want space! Id cry. My mother is very beautiful and my father adored her as if she were a fragile china vase, never laying a hand on her, unlike many of our men. on the Internet. It took them a week to clear the debris. "genre": "Biography & Autobiography", I wondered what I would do. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with We have a saying, Without honour, the world counts for nothing. We fight and feud among ourselves so much that our word for cousin tarbur is the same as our word for enemy. The only way to cross the river is by rope bridges or on a pulley system by which people swing themselves across in a metal box. Sometimes though she would be out because she was shopping for clothes in the Cheena Bazaar, and that would be a different matter. My father had turned his weakness into strength. 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. His voice did not boom like his fathers, but his passion shone through and as he went on he gained confidence. Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the programme, complained that trying to organise them was like weighing frogs. I didnt like walking near it as it smelt so bad. There are many stories that Lord Buddha himself came here because it is a place of such peace, and some of his ashes are said to be buried in the valley in a giant stupa. You could say I grew up in a school. ``2jZ }y 2Al`Z1LGOpfm0gpy&,y) o4@
She was unusual in the village as she had a father and brothers who encouraged her to go to school. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. When my mother arrived, Hidayatullah had to move into the office and sleep on a hard wooden chair. Many never came back. Malala Yousafzai's I Am Malala, published in 2013, is a gripping autobiography from a young woman who became an international advocate for girls' education . But now I had two other girls in the room. We would cry in terror, though in fact as toe and finger in Pashto is the same, we were all twenty-fingered, but we didnt realise. As a teacher he was eligible for a discount on his sons school fees for sports and joining the Boy Scouts. The local commander, General They came from neighbouring villages in a remote valley Next door to us the Shah of Iran had been overthrown in a revolution a few months earlier so the CIA had lost their main base in the region. Influential people in remote areas took money from I would listen rapt as he told stories of warring tribes, Pashtun leaders and saints, often through poems that he read in a melodious voice, crying sometimes as he read. The girls would use a different gate from the men. My two grandfathers did not get on. PDFWhale.com is strictly for educational purposes only. The beautiful trees on our hills and mountains were being chopped down for timber. Only Shahpur had a clinic, and if anyone fell ill in the other villages they had to be carried there by their relatives on a wooden frame which we jokingly called the Shangla Ambulance. Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto had appointed Zia as his army chief because he thought he was not very intelligent and would not be a threat. My grandfather never bought him new books. One of their most heated debates in that first year was over a novel. We drank green tea as we could not afford milk for regular tea. Either he leaves from poverty or he leaves for love. Our aunts scared us with ghost stories, like the one about Shalgwatay, the twenty-fingered man, who they warned would sleep in our beds. The temples are long gone, but almost anywhere you go in Swat, amid all the primroses and other wild flowers, you find their remains. They were also both frustrated as the school was very strict and unimaginative. I cook food. My father was very impressed by Faiz Mohammad and thought he talked a lot of sense, particularly about wanting to end the feudal and capitalist systems in our country, where the same big families had controlled things for years while the poor got poorer. Their children are usually dirty and they are looked down upon by Pashtuns, even if they are poor themselves. After a couple of rulers who did not work out, in 1917 the chiefs settled on a man called Miangul Abdul Wadood as their king. Her name Tor Pekai means raven tresses even though her hair is chestnut brown. Thats also why we rarely say thank you, manana, because we believe a Pashtun will never forget a good deed and is bound to reciprocate at some point, just as he will a bad one. One girl commanded, Assaan bash! Then he would find she was at the hospital visiting someone who was ill, or had gone to help a family, so he could not stay cross. The Americans had already suspended most aid the year before when we conducted nuclear tests, but now almost everyone boycotted us. I developed these questions to test their understanding of the material and to review the things we had discussed in class. Are you getting the free resources, updates, and special offers we send out every week in our teacher newsletter? He began to sign himself Ziauddin Panchpiri (the Panchpiri are a religious sect) and sprouted the first signs of a beard. You'll see a "Provide feedback" button. For the first time Baba started praising him in front of others. 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