Gaining Bakground: 

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24379018- Do you know her?  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE5gSHJkusU - Movie Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGL6YY6oMs- Interview with her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQ2zYT-2AA  What was her hometown like? -Swat Valley, Pakistan

Make 3 observations about this place and then tell how it is different from the United States 

-Preview the Book: how is it organized? (view table of contents)

- What type of book is this? Fiction/Nonfiction

- Read the Prologue...

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 

1.  What is the purpose of the Prologue?

2.  How does it invite readers to want to know more about Malala?  

3 .  Foreshadowing is a literary device that gives the reader a hint about events to come. Malala says, “I’d had a strange, gnawing feeling that something bad was going to happen.” (p. 9)

4. What does this foreshadow?

5.  Describe Malala’s family. How do she and her brothers interact like most siblings?

6.  Explain how her family is different from her relatives in the rural mountain village of Shangla. Contrast the views of Malala’s mother and father toward women. How does her mother change after Malala is shot?

7. Malala is named for the Malalai, the Pashtun heroine who was an inspiration to her people for her courage. Debate/decide whether Malala’s father had great plans for his daughter when he named her.

8. How does Malala live up to her name?

9.  Cite/name specific passages from the book that best illustrate Malala’s courage.

10. How is Malala inspired by her father’s courage?

11.  Explain how it takes courage for anyone to stand up for change.

12. The code of purdah requires women to cover themselves in public. Malala notices that the women who visit her home are different when they remove the headscarves and veils. What does she see in them that they don’t see themselves?

13.How does watching these women cause Malala to make a declaration about the kind of Muslim girl and woman she wants to be?

14.  Why does this determination shock and upset her mother and her extended family?

15. How does visiting women relatives in Shangla make Malala confused and sad about the role of women?

16. Contrast the way boys and girls are treated in Pakistan, beginning at birth. Malala’s father places her name on the family tree. It is the first female name on the family tree in 300 years. Explain the symbolism of this bold act by her father.

17. Malala’s father tells her that he will protect her freedom. (p. 25) Why does he blame himself when the Taliban attacks Malala?

18.  How does her mother soothe his thoughts?

19. Malala values education, and takes pride in being an excellent student. Some American students take education for granted. What might Malala say to these students?

Malala Quiz: Prologue and Chapter 1:

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=i-am-malala-prologue-and-chapter-1

- More about Malala's Home Nation:

Malala's Pakistan

Getting Down To Work:

1. Malala Folder Requirements

2. Nobel Peace Prize Winner---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-jPT5M9cU

3. Reading Passages on United Nations

4.  Learning More about the UN and Malala's connection to them : http://www.un.org/en/index.html