Reading the Biography CN-ECS11UB_1 (Period 1) 2021 1 Assignments

Directions: By Monday, everyone should have submitted their three entries and the Padlet should encapsulate this historic moment in our lives. 


Here are some ideas to consider for your entries:

1) Describe a dream or wish you had while city was under lockdown.
2) Explain your hopes and/or fears.
3) Incorporate images, drawings, recordings of yourself or your work that captures how you were/are feeling during this time. [Be sure it is appropriate for a school setting and explain why you selected this to capture your inner thoughts and feelings during this pandemic].
4) Share how you passed or have been passing the time. Why did you chose to do what you did? Explain.
5) Provide a life lesson that you have learned because of your experience. Explain the importance of this lesson and how you have changed because this lesson.
6) Share a video, article, or quote that helped you get through this experience. Explain its significance. 

Directions: With a partner, complete the following graphic organizer. This task requires you to reflect on chapter nine plot events. Discuss what you and your partner think is the message Malala is making about: POWER. Then, determine how she used ONE writing strategy to convey this message. Cite textual evidence to support your analysis. Once you are done, defend your stance on the message Malala is conveying to her readers. 

HW: Complete the reading and finish answering the questions assigned to your chapter.

Directions: Read and annotate Chapter 9.


On Pear Deck, complete the graphic organizer. Based on Chapter 9 events, how was the Taliban group able to gain power over the people? Connect this to the Ted-Ed video just watched.

Read and annotate Chapther 5 of I am Malala

Complete the 3-4 paragraph original story.

HW: Finish reading chapter 4. Complete chart on Pear Deck.

Return to Chapter Three of I am Malala. 
Independently read the rest of the chapter. 
Take notes of ALL the challenges Ziauddin Yousafzai faced because he and a friend decided to open up a school.

Describe each challenge.
What were the outcomes of these challenges?
What did you learn about opening up a school of your own? Explain.

Directions: Read pages 1-5 of chapter three. Annotate as you go. Answer the following questions as you go:
What is revealed by the teachers' actions in this paragraph?
How has Malala's father's luck changed? What does this mean for him?
What important lesson did Malala's father learn in these pages?
Why is there all of a sudden "a lot of optimism about the future"?
What has caused this violent reaction from the Muslim people? Do they have the right to be angry? Defend your stance.

Watch Greta Thunberg's speech to world leaders. Answer the questions on Pear Deck.