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Teen Shot for Her Advocacy is the Daughter of the Whole World, Dad Says (950L)

Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES

Read the following article carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.
Your notes should include:
o Comments that show that you understand the article. (A summary or statement of the main
idea of important sections may serve this purpose.)
o Questions you have that show what you are wondering about as you read.
o Notes that differentiate between fact and opinion.
o Observations about how the writers strategies (organization, word choice, perspective,
support) and choices affect the article.

Your margin notes are part of your score for this assessment.
Answer the questions carefully in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed.

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Teen shot for her advocacy is the daughter of Notes on my thoughts, reactions
and questions as I read:
the whole world, dad says
(CNN) Ziuaddin Yousafzai spent much of his life believing that girls should get an
education. He always made sure his daughter Malala understood that. Months after
Taliban militants gravely wounded his 15-year-old with a bullet to the head for being
vocal about that belief, he thinks more people around the world and in his home country
agree with him.

Last October, the teenager was riding home in a school van in the Swat Valley, a Taliban
stronghold in Pakistan, when masked men stopped the vehicle. They demanded that the
other girls identify Malala. They trained their guns on their target and fired. Then they
shot another girl, wounding her.

Malala was treated by Pakistani doctors in the initial days after the shooting. The
prognosis was dire. As international outrage grew, Pakistanis took to the streets.
Shooting a little girl? The Taliban had gone too far this time. The government had better
do something. Around the world, more people began learning about how the Taliban,
years earlier, had ordered that all girls leave school.

Malala "is the daughter of the whole world," her father told CNN on Friday. "The world
owns her." She has become an icon of education, a symbol of girls' rights. "She has
made a difference," he said. Malala is getting stronger by the day, and "recovering very
well, very fast," he added. The teen was discharged from a hospital in Birmingham,
England, in February and is receiving rehabilitative care. A team of international doctors
who took over Malala's care from Pakistani providers certainly did amazing work in

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Notes on my thoughts, reactions

saving her life. They addressed her brain swelling. Her skull had fractured in tiny pieces and questions as I read:
from the gunshot at close range. She has endured numerous surgeries.

But apart from top-notch medicine, sheer force of will that has aided in Malala's
recovery. Her attitude has won over people worldwide. In February she was walking,
and talking -- and saying she was going to get back to her advocacy for girls' education.
"God has given me this new life," she said at the time in her first on-camera interview.
"I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated."

Ziauddin Yousafzai was an educator for many years and first inspired his daughter to
take a stand. But how likely will Malala's work and physical sacrifice actually lead to
greater access to quality education for girls in Pakistan? It's unlikely for her own safety
that Malala will ever be able to return there, and unlikely for her father as well, say
observers who know Pakistan well.

CNN put that question to Ziauddin. Pakistan's government has appointed him education
attach in the Pakistani Consulate in the United Kingdom. Ziauddin responded to the
question by first pointing out that before his daughter was attacked, regular Pakistanis
would call and tell him that they'd seen Malala speaking out on television and, inspired,
enrolled their daughters in school. She'd received a huge amount of global attention,
especially from western media, after writing a blog for the Guardian when she was 11.
She described her fear that the Taliban would keep her from learning.

After Malala was shot, stirring international condemnation, Ziauddin was heartened.
"When this tragic incident happened, small kids, they had posters, banners [with
Malala's face and message] and they [related to and knew about] Malala," Ziauddin
said. "I think it was a big change."

There have been developments in Pakistan, but it's difficult to call them victories. A
university in Pakistan changed its name to include Malala, but then students protested
out of fear that Malala's name would draw unwanted and potentially dangerous
attention. Malala asked them to remove it. In March, two of Malala's friends were
honored -- but those honors would not have been granted had they not been on that bus
with Malala. In an interview with CNN, one girl, Shazia Ramzan, said "God forbid
something like that would happen again." She said she cannot go to visit her uncles or
aunts like I used to." But both girls said they want to be doctors and are going to
continue their studies.

This year, Pakistan will observe Malala's 16th birthday as "Malala Day." Time
magazine selected her to be runner-up in this year's Person of the Year.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined Ziauddin in the interview. Brown,
now the United Nations special envoy on global education, has been pushing Pakistani
authorities to follow through in meaningful, practical ways that will improve girls'
access to quality education. When asked, Brown stated, in his own words, about girls'
education in Pakistan "I was there in Pakistan at the time [of Malala's shooting]," Brown
said. "I think 2 million people have signed a petition calling for universal free
education."
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Teen Shot for Her Advocacy is the Daughter of the Whole World, Dad Says (950L)

Comprehension questions answers may be in phrases.

1. What two high honors has Malala received this year?

2. In what area of Pakistan was Malala shot?

3. Define attach as used in the article.

4. Aside from recovering from the gunshot, what is Malalas main purpose in life?

5. Define icon as used in the article.

2. Answer each question in one or more complete sentences.

What is meant by global attention as used in paragraph 1?

For what reason are the Pakistani friends of Malala unable to visit relatives?

Explain why the university in Pakistan was asked to remove Malalas name from their school?

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3. In your opinion, should there be universal free education? What could this knowledge do for our
world? Our country? Our community? Should every person receive exactly the same education? Be
specific and detailed in your answer. Use textual evidence to support your opinion.

7/8.RL.2,5,10

4. Paragraph 4 begins with this statement, Malala "is the daughter of the whole world," her father told
CNN on Friday. "The world owns her." She has become an icon of education, a symbol of girls' rights. "She has
made a difference," he said. Explain the meaning of these lines; cite evidence from the text to back up your
answer

7/8.RL.8,10

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