Malala Yousafzai

Pupil and parent learning sheetWeek beginning: 22-06-20

This week's work for Year 7 English is about looking at the persuasive writing of Malala Yousafzai in greater detail.

By the end of topic, you should be able to: • Analyse the impact of persuasion in images and letters from the wartime era.• Locate and examine the areas of the world that are effected by inequality. • Identify the key parts of the world that are affected by negative persuasion.• Utilise persuasive techniques to create your own letter to go to a new place.

Your work this week will include the following activities: (You do not need to print any resources! You will need your book or lined paper to complete the tasks.)• Focusing on the speech language in greater detail.• Analysing Malala’s persuasive techniques used in the speech.• Giving your own opinion of the speech.

For extra help with English learning, you may also want to look at the following:https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Malala+UN+Speech&&view=detail&mid=B5A167079EA7F11180AAB5A167079EA7F11180AA&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DMalala%2BUN%2BSpeech%26FORM%3DRESTAB

If you complete all your work to a high standard, you may also want to start thinking in more detail about linking all of the details about Pakistan and Malala’s situation. Think about the comparison between our country and the rights we have as adults and children. Try making a comparison between our rights and the rights Malala (and other children in her situation) have.

Quick Think – Did you know…

• Do you think that everybody is entitled to an education?

• Do you think that this happens all over the world?

61 million children around the world do not

go to school.

39 million (63%) of these children

are girls.

Recap - THINK

Last week, you looked at the speech written by Malala Yousafzai. She wrote about the way that her right to education had been denied. She discussed the reasons why it is so important to have a voice and to express opinions.

This week, you will be looking at parts of the speech in greater detail. You will analyse and provide your own judgements on what you think the speech means and what Malala’s opinion means to you.

Before doing this, you are going to find out a little more about her.

Who is Malala?• I am Malala.

• Watch the video link above. Write down two feelings you have about what happened to Malala.

• Then write one question you’d like to ask her.

Challenge: Imagine you are Malala. Write a response she might give to your question.

Task

1) Read the opening to her speech and then answer the following questions in your books or on a piece of paper.

2) Write down one sentence from the opening to the speech that shows Malala was courageous.

3) Why did she show courage?

4) Who did she show courage against?

5) How did she show courage?

Recap persuasive techniques

• Alliteration

• Facts

• Opinions

• Rhetorical Questions

• Repetition

• Emotive Language

• Statistics

• Triplets

“61 million children around the world do not go to school.39 million (63%) of these children are girls.”

“Unfair, unjust and unacceptable.”

“The touching, tragic (and sadly) true tale of Malala teaches us a very important lesson.”

TASK:Which techniques can you find in each example? There may be more than one used in each.

Challenge: Can you create an example of your own for each technique?

Task

Using the same opening text, in your books or on apiece of paper:• Identify any persuasive techniques that have

been used• Provide at least one example from the

speech.• Explain why the technique is effective in

persuading an audience.

On the next slide, there is an example of how I want you topresent your findings in your book. Copy out the chart and usethe opening of the speech to complete it.

Example for task

BSG questions about the speech

Bronze - Why does Malala emphasise the word ‘they’ over the word ‘my’?Silver – What are the effects of the short sentences at the end of the paragraph?Gold - Look at the choice of words.

1. Why is the idea of her being killed not presented in an emotional way?

2. Explain how she uses matter of fact language to make her point effectively.

For the questions below, write your answers in your books or on a piece of paper. Have a go at the questions you feel comfortable at trying. But if you are feeling confident, challenge yourself!

Review

In 20 words, in your book or on a piece of paper, write down how the opening to the speech has made you feel?

1. How has it affected you?

2. Has it made an impact?

For the task on the next slide, you are going to need to look at the speech once again. You are going to need it to refer to language used. Make sure you have a copy of it on the

screen or on paper.

Well done Year 7, you have completed the first part of this

week’s English work.

Make sure you take a break and then complete the second and third part of the work later in the week.

Recap

In the last session, you focused on looking at the persuasive opening to the speech.

Think“Words can be more powerful than a weapon.”

Write (in your book or on a piece of paper)Do you think the statement above can be true? Why/why not?

Moving forwards…

For this session, you are going to focus on the whole speech. You will be looking at the impact of how Malala’s words are a great tool to bring people to understand and support her view.

You will need to be able to see a copy of the full speech to answer questions. There are prompts in the slides to tell you where you will need to look for certain answers/details.

Dear brothers and sisters, do remember one thing. Malala day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.

There are hundreds of Human rights activists and social workers who are not only speaking for human rights, but who are struggling to achieve their goals of education, peace and equality. Thousands of people have been killed by the terrorists and millions have been injured. I am just one of them.

So here I stand.... one girl among many.

I speak – not for myself, but for all girls and boys.

I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.

Those who have fought for their rights:

Their right to live in peace.

Their right to be treated with dignity.

Their right to equality of opportunity.

Their right to be educated.

Dear Friends, on the 9th of October 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

Malala speech in full

I am the same Malala. My ambitions are the same. My hopes are the same. My dreams are the same.

Honourable Secretary General, peace is necessary for education. In many parts of the world especially Pakistan and Afghanistan; terrorism, wars and conflicts stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering in many parts of the world in many ways.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorists group. I am here to speak up for the right of education of every child. I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists especially the Taliban.

Dear sisters and brothers, we realise the importance of light when we see darkness. We realise the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way, when we were in Swat, the north of Pakistan, we realised the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.

The wise saying, “The pen is mightier than sword” was true. The extremists are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women. The power of the voice of women frightens them. And that is why they killed 14 innocent medical students in the recent attack in Quetta. And that is why they killed many female teachers and polio workers in Khyber Pukhtoon Khwa and FATA. That is why they are blasting schools every day. Because they were and they are afraid of change, afraid of the equality that we will bring into our society.

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labour. Many schools have been destroyed in Nigeria. People in Afghanistan have been affected by the hurdles of extremism for decades. Young girls have to do domestic child labour and are forced to get married at early age. Poverty, ignorance, injustice, racism and the deprivation of basic rights are the main problems faced by both men and women.

Dear sisters and brothers, now it's time to speak up. So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favour of peace and prosperity.

We call upon the world leaders that all the peace deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the dignity of women and their rights is unacceptable.

We call upon all governments to ensure free compulsory education for every child all over the world.

We call upon all governments to fight against terrorism and violence, to protect children from brutality and harm.

We call upon the developed nations to support the expansion of educational opportunities for girls in the developing world.

We call upon all communities to be tolerant – to reject prejudice based on cast, creed,sect, religion or gender. To ensure freedom and equality for women so that they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realise their full potential.

Dear brothers and sisters, we want schools and education for every child’s bright future.

We will continue our journey to our destination of peace and education for everyone. No one can stop us. We will speak for our rights and we will bring change through our voice. We must believe in the power and the strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

Because we are all together, united for the cause of education. And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

Dear brothers and sisters, we must not forget that millions of people are suffering from poverty, injustice and ignorance. We must not forget that millions of children are out of schools. We must not forget that our sisters and brothers are waiting for a bright peaceful future.

So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism and let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.

One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.

Education is the only solution. Education First.

Analysis of the speech in greater detail

In the next few slides, you will see a number of questions about aspects of different parts of Malala’s speech.

I would like you to record all of your answer in your books or on a piece of paper.

The small yellow boxes at the top of the slide will tell you which part of the speech you need to begin looking at.

1. Why begin with, ‘Dear Friends…’?2. Why does Malala tell her story so matter of factly?3. Why does Malala refer to the Taliban as ‘they’ (are they

supposed to be different from her?)4. Why does she use the word terrorist? Does it give her

speech a motive?5. Why does she use the same vowel sound (assonance)?

Does it flip a negative into a positive?6. Why does it repeat sisters and brothers? (How is this a

reference to her background? Think about your knowledge of Pakistan from previous weeks)

7. Why does she use sisters first?8. How and why do we know that Malala is not vengeful?9. Why does she make these deliberate word choices in her

speech?

Analysis Using the paragraph, ‘Dear Friends…

1. What stops children going to school? (Think context.)

2. What specific examples does she use within her speech?

3. How does she pull her speech together and summarise it?

4. Why does she write her speech in a specific to general order?

Analysis Using the middle section, ‘The wise saying…’

1. ‘Dear Sisters and Brothers, now it is time to speak up’

What do you think Malala wants people to do as a result of her speech?

2. How does she do this?a. Think about the repetition and the emphasis. How is it inclusive?

Analysis Using the end section, ‘Dear Sisters and Brothers…’

Look at the sentences that Malala uses.

1) Identify the different sentence types

2) Explain why her sentences become simpler towards the end.

3) The final sentence is a slogan, why is this done?

Analysis Looking at the whole speech

A final thought about the speech…

‘Let us pick up our books and pens’

In your books or on a piece of paper, write down what you think this statement means.

Think about the following questions when you are writing your answer.

• Why is Malala addressing everyone to pick up their books and pens?

• Is she literally asking the audience to pick the items up or does it have an alternate meaning?

• How is this impactful and persuasive to an audience?

Review

In your books or on a piece of paper, answer the following questions.

If you could pick just one aspect of the speech that shows persuasion, what would you pick and why?

Use these sentence starters to help write your answers.

The most effective use of persuasive, in my opinion, was…

The reason I chose this technique is because…

Malala is persuasive author because she utilises … in her writing. This makes me feel…

Well done Year 7, you have completed the second part of this week’s English work.

Next week we will be looking at Malala’s speech in more detail.

To finish this week, have a go at the literacy tasks.

SPAG review

You are going to complete a fun SPAG quiz. Firstly, you will see all of the questions, you can have a go at answering them. After, the next few slides will reveal the answers to you. You can then tick whether you got any right or not.

There are different types of questions related to SPAG. Remember it will be very useful when you come back into school so try your best. Have a go and challenge you thinking!

Write your answers in your book or on a piece of paper.

1. Which has the closest meaning?

I will look it up in the library

A) Put it

B) Find it

C) Search for it

2. Correction is to error, as cure is to _______

A) Heal

B) treatment

C) Disease

D) Drug

3. Which is the correct word?The President ___ the opening

pitch.

a. threwb. throughc. throw

4. What is the missing word?

To give someone a wide ___ means to stay out of their way.

5. Fill in the sentence with an appropriate adjective.

John is always frank. He is an _____ man.

6. A story from the past is called a ___ .

a. accountb. articlec. exciting

d. mythe. ancient

7. tpeseinonrat

Anagram – re arrange these letters to make one word

8. What language device is used in this sentence?

Listening to Mozart’s concerto felt like an angel bringing

music from heaven!

9) Which of the following is correct?

This _________ for you.

a) letter’s

b) letters’

c) letters

10) If the answer is NOUN- then what is the question

?

11) What phrase is being shown in this picture?

12) What phrase is being shown using these pictures?

13) Here are three clues, each to a different word. Each of the three words rhymes with each

other. What are they?

Opposite of bald – frightening –magical creature

14) All these words are the top 5 most commonly used English words.

Put them in the correct order 1 being the most commonly used. Point for

each in the right place.

And 1.be 2.a 3.of 4.the 5.

Get your pen out ready to mark your answers!

Hopefully you managed to remember some of the

techniques and words that we use in English.

1. Which has the closest meaning?

I will look it up in the library

A) Put it

B) Find it

C) Search for it

2. Correction is to error, as cure is to _______

A) Heal

B) treatment

C) Disease

D) Drug

3. Which is the correct word?The President ___ the opening pitch.

a. threwb. throughc. throw

4. What is the missing word?

To give someone a wide ___ means to stay out of their way.

berth

5. Fill in the sentence with an appropriate adjective.

John is always frank. He is an _____ man.

Honest/ Truthful

6. A story from the past is called a ___ .

a. accountb. articlec. exciting

d. mythe. ancient

7. tpeseinonrat

Anagram – re arrange these letters to make

one word

presentation

8. What language device is used in this sentence?

Listening to Mozart’s concerto felt like an angel

bringing music from heaven!

Simile

9) Which of the following is correct?

This _________ for you.

a) letter’s

b) letters’

c) letters

10) If the answer is NOUN- then what is the question ?

What do we call a naming word?

11) What phrase is being shown in this picture?

Lost for words

12) What phrase is being shown using these pictures?

Capital Letter

13) Here are three clues, each to a different word. Each of the three words rhymes with each other. What are they?

Opposite of bald – frightening –magical creature

Hairy – Scary- Fairy

14) All these words are the top 5 most commonly used English words. Put them in

the correct order 1 being the most commonly used. Point for each in the right

place.

And 1.be 2.a 3.of 4.the 5.

The Be AndOfA

1. c) Search for it

2. C) disease

3. a) threw

4. Berth

5. Honest ( will accept similar words)

6. d) Myth

7. Presentation

8. simile

9. Letter’s ( letter is )

10 What do we call a naming word?

11. Lost for words

12. Capital letter

13) Hair , Scary, Fairy

14) 1. The 2. Be 3. And 4. Of 5. A

Here are the answers one more time if you weren’t sure about them!

Well done if you scored well and even greater well done for having a go!

• Send your pictures of your wonderful work to learningfromhome@ipsleyacademy.co.ukwith the subject title ‘English Year 7 Home Learning – Mr Storey’

• Take a good break and we will see you next week to continue looking at ways to show persuasion.

• Keep reading everyone! I am currently focused on Casino Royale by Ian Fleming!

Well done you have completed the work for English this week!