. There was a major problem, however. Older people often looked back nostalgically to the days of the last wali. Free trial is available to new customers only. 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. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women. But General Zia brought in Islamic laws which reduced a womans evidence in court to count for only half that of a mans. "aggregateRating": { 4. On the day only eight or nine boys and girls turned up. Like almost all the houses in the area, it was flat-roofed and made of stone and mud. There was also Nooria, whose mother Kharoo did some of our washing and cleaning, and Alishpa, one of the daughters of Khalida, the woman who helped my mother with the cooking. boys. It was the ground floor of a two- storey building in a well-off area called Landikas with a walled courtyard where students could gather. To get him released she walked forty miles alone over mountains to appeal to a powerful cousin. If he accidentally drew a snake he could erase it and the snake would disappear. Down on the river at the Karshat end were water buffaloes. 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. Some of the girls screamed. Though Afghans are renowned fighters, Colonel Imam, the officer heading the programme, complained that trying to organise them was like weighing frogs. Malala's skull had pressure: her brain was swelling and in order to make room for it they needed to remove some of her skull. Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. As we skipped through, we cast off our head-scarves like winds puffing away clouds to make way for the sun then ran helter-skelter up the steps. He did not mention he could not afford to take it as he did not want to embarrass his father. By far the biggest group is the Barelvis, who are named after a nineteenth-century madrasa in Bareilly, which lies in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. 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. 412 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<1E14FC240D7FA4478A45ABC27DCF6DCF>]/Index[398 27]/Info 397 0 R/Length 79/Prev 290687/Root 399 0 R/Size 425/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream We have had three wars against India and what seems like endless killing inside our own country. We just knew my father didnt want us there, said my father. Includes 24 multiple choice questions on context clues, content, figurative language, and three text-dependent questions. With just one click, you can post this assessment to your classroom web page. As darkness fell we sat by the light of oil lamps, batting away the flies as our silhouettes made dancing shadows on the walls. The Afghans were so proud that the last Afghan king built a Maiwand victory monument in the centre of Kabul. My grandfather was so furious he would not speak to them for their entire stay. Hidayatullah was furious. It was a peculiar system called wesh under which every five or ten years all the families would swap villages and redistribute the land of the new village among the men so that everyone had the chance to work on good as well as bad land. PART FOUR: BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH 21 God, I entrust her to you 22 Journey into the Unknown Includes a key as well as page numbers for each answer from the hardback edition of her work! My father said this was rubbish. To try to get people at home to support him, General Zia launched a campaign of Islamisation to make us a proper Muslim country with the army as the defenders of our countrys ideological as well as geographical frontiers. Hello, Bhabi! I called. Who is Malala? Running a school is not a crime, he told them. In our province Maulana Sufi Mohammad, who had fought in Afghanistan against the Russians, issued a fatwa against the US. A famous poem was written at that time by Rahmat Shah Sayel, the same Peshawar poet who wrote the poem about my namesake. First my father would try to rouse me. My grandfather suggested that he might take my father in so he could go to college there. They were just waiting to be married, says my father. He had thought we were done with military dictatorships. Dont tell Aba, I begged. Then he helped them save their fridge. We did not realise then that 9/11 would change our world too, and would bring war into our valley. Among them was Winston Churchill, who wrote a book about it, and we still call one of the peaks Churchills Picket even though he was not very complimentary about our people. My father came from a backward village yet through education and force of personality he made a good living for us and a name for himself. One of her brothers was mentally ill and was always doing strange things like setting fire to their clothes or selling the electric fan we gave them to keep cool. In our society marriages are usually arranged by families, but theirs was a love match. My dream was coming true. Naeem and my father invested their entire savings of 60,000 rupees. Many did, and they set off, armed with old rifles or just axes and bazookas. Enjoy! Analysis. He went outside, shouting Ziauddin, Ziauddin! The search almost cost Hidayatullah his life. Chinese explorers wrote stories of how there were 1,400 Buddhist monasteries along the banks of the River Swat, and the magical sound of temple bells would ring out across the valley. Played 200 times. In our culture we all have nicknames aside from Pisho, which my mother had called me since I was a baby, some of my cousins called me Lachi, which is Pashto for cardamom. His sisters my aunts did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. It is for those forgotten children who want education. By then my father was becoming a well-known figure in Swat. She comes from a large family with three sisters and four brothers. We knew what it was like to be hungry so my mother always cooked extra and gave food to poor families. 20% Dotted around were hives of bees. He made us all laugh with his crazy stories. Click the "DOWNLOAD PDF (DIRECT LINK)" button. To all the girls who have faced injustice and been silenced. He was furious and would not be placated. There are also 3 text-dependent questions that require more in-depth analysis. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Wed lived on the same street when we were little and been friends since primary school and we shared everything, Justin Bieber songs and Twilight movies, the best face-lightening creams. You may have to realign some pages after downloading. 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. He remembered how mystified he had been by the river in his village, wondering where the water came from and went to, until he learned about the water cycle from the rain to the sea. When my mother arrived, Hidayatullah had to move into the office and sleep on a hard wooden chair. When my grandparents came home they were furious and beat him. At the top of the steps was an open courtyard with doors to all the classrooms. Even my grandfather was proud. See a complete list of the characters inI Am Malalaand in-depth analyses of Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai,Toor Pekai Yousafzai, and Malauna Fazlullah. The assessment can be broken up into chapter quizzes (1-2, 3-4, etc.). Look instead to your own daughter. It was in Spal Bandi that my father came across women who had great freedom and were not hidden away as in his own village. They named it the Khushal School after one of my fathers great heroes, Khushal Khan Khattak, the warrior poet from Akora just south of Swat, who tried to unify all Pashtun tribes against the Moghuls in the seventeenth century. He was actually getting married, but he didnt tell any of his friends in Mingora as he could not afford to entertain them. $24.99 How many teachers do you have? He was an extremely disciplined man and could not understand why they were not the same. 3 Growing up in a School MY MOTHER STARTED school when she was six and stopped the same term. Malik Janser Khan refused the proposal, but my father is a stubborn man and persuaded my grandfather to send the barber again. Jinnah had lived in London as a young man and trained as a barrister. You are the ones educating their children. He soon became president of the organisation and expanded it until it included 400 principals. Discount, Discount Code We Pashtuns are split between Pakistan and Afghanistan and dont really recognise the border that the British drew more than 100 years ago. "Q,2"f&`$st WO$"Sgu^6J6uJQnt2faXMyu 5x:D9@9>MUmt8o ^\[r)UyZe ;]c_ik\SU;J*m`~ %wCZBCyz{@&WQOQ52 |/-%KvW. My father says that in our part of the world this idea of jihad was very much encouraged by the CIA. It used to be a small place but many people had moved in from surrounding villages, making it dirty and crowded. There are a total of 195 pages in this PDF and it will take the average reader approximately 5.53 hours to read from start to finish. Usually politicians only visited during election time, promising roads, electricity, clean water and schools and giving money and generators to influential local people we called stakeholders, who would instruct their communities on how to vote. This is my story. Nasir Pacha had spent years in Saudi Arabia working in construction, making money to send back to his family. Just as Khattak had wanted the Pashtuns to unite against a foreign enemy, so we needed to unite against ignorance. It's that simple! We dont respect privacy and there is no such thing as making an appointment to see someone. SparkNotes PLUS Nearby there were boys fishing in the pile for metal using magnets on strings. He and Hidayatullah hardly had money to pay for food, let alone bribes. in the upper Swat called Shangla and would see each other when my father went to his uncles house to study, which was next door to that of my mothers aunt. My mother is very pious and prays five times a day, though not in the mosque as that is only for the men. So when we did the end-of-year exams and Malka-e-Noor came first, I was shocked. No one said anything, but several of the girls looked at me. My mother gave birth to ten children in this way. The school continued to lose money. My father prayed they would agree, but my grandfather asked them as soon as they arrived, exhausted after the three-day bus journey, and his son-in-law refused outright. When she was a teenager, both her father and the man she was supposed to marry were among thousands of Afghans fighting against the British occupation of their country. This means cat and is her name for me. I think I am a bit of a disappointment to her as I am so like my father and dont bother with clothes and jewels. My fathers elder brother Saeed Ramzan had worked for years as a teacher at a local school. endstream endobj startxref He taught theology in the government high school in the village of Shahpur. He had studied in a British school in Peshawar, and perhaps because his own father was illiterate he was passionate about schools and built many, as well as hospitals and roads. Now, every morning when I open my eyes, I long to see my old room full of my things, my clothes all over the floor and my school prizes on the shelves. Pashtuns are a proud people of many tribes split between Pakistan and Afghanistan. "@type": "Person", Even for the adults it was hard to imagine the biggest buildings in Swat are the hospital and a hotel, which are two or three storeys. He watched the girls going in and out of our school every day and became angry, particularly as some of the girls were teenagers. We were wrong, of course. The back where we sat had no windows, just thick plastic sheeting at the sides which flapped and was too yellowed and dusty to see through. Add highlights, virtual manipulatives, and more. 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. So I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as Swati and then Pashtun, before Pakistani. 35 are multiple choice and 15 are short answer. An answer key and a CCSS alignment key are included as well. For the next 7 days, you'll have access to awesome PLUS stuff like AP English test prep, No Fear Shakespeare translations and audio, a note-taking tool, personalized dashboard, & much more! A pink plastic barrette C. A pink plastic . Next to Mingora, the main city of Swat, but also those like the Taliban who think girls should not go to school. The school had expanded a lot by then and had three buildings the original one in Landikas was a primary school, and then there was a high school for girls on Yahya Street and one for boys with a big garden of roses near the remains of the Buddhist temple. The village was very poor, but when we arrived our extended family would lay on a big feast. As the Yousafzai in Swat had no ruler, there were constant feuds between the khans and even within their own families. My grandfather had a different dream for his youngest son he longed for him to be a doctor and as one of just two sons, he expected him to contribute to the household budget. A woman named Shahida who worked for us and had three small daughters, told me that when she was only ten years old her father had sold her to an old man who already had a wife but wanted a younger one. He had an old radio set my uncle still has, on which he loved to listen to the news. Malala. The problem was I did not know how to get it to him. My father, Ziauddin, is different from most Pashtun men. Though I felt bad, I was also relieved it was over. So when the DCs came from Pakistan, they were the new kings and no one questioned them. My cousin Reena came into my room. Then his nephew Aziz, who had come to help, raised the Pakistan flag. He told other boys to stop playing marbles in the dust and to play cricket instead so their clothes and hands wouldnt get dirty. 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. Once she was ready, the bride would start crying and we would stroke her hair and try to convince her not to worry. Her name Tor Pekai means raven tresses even though her hair is chestnut brown. To her it was a modern town. The man chosen to be the leader or caliph was Abu Bakr, a close friend and adviser of the Prophet and the man he chose to lead prayers as he lay on his deathbed. The wali administered justice, kept the peace between warring tribes and collected ushur a tax of ten per cent of income with which he built roads, hospitals and schools. I was only four and too young to understand. One was Sher Zaman, a man who had been in my fathers class and always got better grades than him. %PDF-1.5 % 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 . One day it disappeared. One of my fathers friends is a Shia and he cries whenever he talks about Husseins death at Karbala. In high school I read some Sherlock Holmes and laughed to see that this was the same battle where Dr Watson was wounded before becoming partner to the great detective. Part One: Before the Taliban Chapter 1A Daughter Is Born 1. Your email address will not be published. I think my mother would do the same for us. Some were in the newspapers, some were notes or messages passed on by people. For me the valley was a sunny place and I couldnt see the clouds gathering behind the mountains. September 15, 2020. Then they disappeared off to Islamabad if they were elected to the National Assembly, or Peshawar for the Provincial Assembly, and wed hear no more of them or their promises. Its horrible to feel unworthy in the eyes of your parents. Purchasing They dont accept our saints and shrines many Pakistanis are also mystical people and gather at Sufi shrines to dance and worship. Uploaded by ~#a:xl,r!M*^mS S EI*/xN#4pZINV{*toUM$6^OI||OwGkrGp^(7/LW-h4&wq I remembered the story of my father surprising my grandfather and longed to do the same. We Pashtuns cannot turn away relatives or friends, however inconvenient. Am I in an office or am I in a police station or a court? By doing so, Malala added to my cultural awareness and illuminated a world about which I had known very little. Some people say I will never return home but I believe firmly in my heart that I will. When he finally found my father, he learned that he had heard a woman crying that her husband was trapped in their house and he had rushed in to save him. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. He joked to my father that if either of them had relatives to stay, they should pay a fine. My father longed for the freedom that would come with running his own school. Find more similar flip PDFs like I am Malala. Visitors can turn up whenever they wish and can stay as long as they want. I thought if anyone attacked me it would be on those steps. The bus was actually what we call a dyna, a white Toyota TownAce truck with three parallel benches, one along either side and one in the middle. The goldsmith kept coming and demanding his money for my mothers wedding bangles. Iftikhar, stormed the control tower at Karachi so that Musharraf s plane could land. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. When I complained about these things to my father he told me that life was harder for women in Afghanistan. Our family owned little land, and my father did not want to end up going south to work in the coal mines like many of his classmates. Many families live in walled compounds with watchtowers so they can keep an eye out for their enemies. flocks of shaggy goats that wandered hither and thither. I assumed women could give birth without going to hospital, as my mother and my sisters had in the village. Many of his classes were taught under a tree on the bare ground. Surely God would find it there. Some 12,000 young men from Swat went to help the Taliban. It was, he says, the first thing Id done that made him smile. After that my father entered every competition in the district. Soon mullahs all over Pakistan were denouncing the book, calling for it to be banned, and angry demonstrations were held. He also swept the floors, whitewashed the walls and cleaned the bathrooms. This product is a literature circle novel unit for the book, "I Am Malala." Even today people talk of Mr Bhutto as a man of great charisma. o'EuJ,0PF@oQo?>"K. So when Naeem lost his job after a dispute with the college administration, they decided to start their own school. After you log in, go to the "My Purchases" page and download this product. My father told him he had just finished school and had won a college place at Jehanzeb. Moniba sets down rules which I try to follow. Islam came to our valley in the eleventh century when Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni invaded from Afghanistan and became our ruler, but in ancient times Swat was a Buddhist kingdom. It is ready to go right out of the printer and provides the teacher with helpful ideas and links. Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 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