December 11th

1. 2nd literature circle discussion will take place today. You will need to collaborate your role reports into the group report. You will also need to turn in your individual journal.

2. Respond to the Reflection #2 prompt on Google Classroom.

3. To get ready for the final, we are going to practice critically responses to literary discussion questions addressing Malala. You will need to choose two of the following discussion questions to answer. You will need to focus on the following skills. These are the skills that you will graded on for the final:

• Answering with a clear thesis/topic statement. 
• Utilize transitions to demonstrate relationship of ideas.
• Support your argument/answer with specific textual support. 
• Accurately introduce direct quotes and implement into writing with ease.
• Cite direct quotes accurately. 
• Explain the relevance of direct quotes to the overall argument. 
• Demonstrate ability to effectively paragraph. 
• Knowledge of MLA formatting. 
• Think critically about a text and formulate an answer that clearly supports these ideas. 

QUESTIONS:

- In Chapter 5, after Malala does not win the class trophy at the end of the school year, her father tells her “It’s a good thing to come in second because you learn that if you can win, you can lose. And you should learn to be a good loser not just a good winner.”  How do you think it builds Malala’s character? Provide textual evidence to support your response. 

- The focus of Malala’s message is that an education is worth dying for, but what is Malala’s perspective of education? How is that perspective the same or different than how we, in America, view education? What might Malala think about our understanding of education? Is her only goal to get a job? Provide textual evidence to support your response. 

- How does Malala describe the affect of the growing Taliban presence in her region? Talk about the rules they imposed on the citizens in the Swat valley. What was life like? Provide textual evidence to support your response. 

- Malala’s relationship with her parents, particularly her father, is arguably one of the most important factors in Malala’s story. Malala writes, “It was my grandmother’s faith in my father that gave him the courage to find his own proud path he could travel along. This is the path that he would later show me” (36). What are some of her father’s courageous acts that appear to inspire Malala most, and lead her on her own “path”? How does Malala’s courage mirror that of her father’s? Provide textual evidence to support your response.

- How does Malala’s relationship with her mother compare with her relationship with her father? What does she see as her mother’s virtues? Provide textual evidence to support your response.

- Malala’s passion and activism for women’s rights and education may lead the reader to forget that she is only 16 years old when writing her story. Are there moments in or recollections of her school and home life when you feel that the “teenager” in Malala becomes apparent? Provide textual support to support your response. 

Requirements:
1. Respond to two questions. 
2. A minimum of THREE direct quotes correctly introduced, integrated, explained in each response. 
3. Typed- MLA formatting.  Example: MLA Formatting Sample
4. A works cited page. 
5. Formal writing conventions (see above) and Cole's Rules of Writing. 

A REMINDER OF HOW TO INTEGRATE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE IN WRITING: 
Integrating Quotes Handout

A REMINDER OF HOW TO DO INTEXT CITATIONS FOR A BOOK: 
OWL In-text Citations MLA

A REMINDER OF HOW TO DO A WORKS CITED PAGE:
MLA WORKS CITED PAGE

DUE at the end of class on Wednesday, December 13th. 

Last literature circle will meet on January 10th!