Nonfiction Text Structures
Choose a text structure from above for each of the following examples from I Am Malala.
On October 8, 2005, a massive earthquake hit the Swat Valley in Pakistan killing more than 70,000 people. Mullahs from the TNSM preached that the earthquake was a warning from God. The Taliban came to the aid of many in the Swat Valley. People began to trust and appreciate the Taliba. Taliban leadership began to take over.
What is cause & effect?
If you were plotting I Am Malala on a plot pyramid where would each part of the novel be placed?
Malala is shot by the Taliban.
What is climax?
A brief statement or account of the main points of something.
What is a summary?
I Am Malala is written in this narrative point of view. The narrator is a character in the story and uses the pronoun "I" in the text.
What is first person?
What are letters added to the BEGINNING of a word?
The base part of a word, giving it its meaning?
Letters added to the END of a world?
My left eye bulged, half my hair was gone and my mouth tilted to one side as if it had been pulled down so when I tried to smile it looked more like a grimace
What is description?
Maulana Fazlullah, a Taliban leader, begins a radio broadcast. Many people begin to follow him.
What is rising action?
Expressing the meaning of the writer using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
What is paraphrasing?
Which of the following is/are the setting(s) from I am Malala?
Mingora, Pakistan
Birmingham, England
Shangla, Pakistan
all of the above
What is all of the above?
Which of the following points of view uses pronouns such as he, she, or they?
What is third person?
“The trip, which usually took a few hours, took two days. First we had to go out of our way because that’s where Safina’s family and my father’s friend were going, and we were traveling with them in their cars because we didn’t have one. When we go to the town of Mardan, we went on by ourselves, taking the Flying Coach as far as it would go. By the end of our journey, we were on foot.”
What is order and sequence?
Malala recovers from the attack in Birmingham, England.
What is falling action?
Are the following synonyms or antonyms?
Negligence/Attention
What are antonyms?
What is the main idea that Malala arrives at while she is praying for a magic pencil?
She could be that one that can make a difference.
Politicians need to back up the people to make a difference.
People need to look outside of their country to make a difference.
There is nothing that could be done to make a difference.
What is she could be the one that can make a difference?
What is the difference between third person point of view LIMITED and OMNISCIENT?
What is: limited means the narrator only knows the thoughts/feelings of one character, while omniscient narrator knows all thoughts/feelings of multiple characters.
We live in a tidy brick house on one of those tidy, tree-lined streets I saw from my window in the hospital. It is lovely. Orderly. Calm. And quiet. Too quiet. There are not children playing cricket in the alleys. No men in the guest room arguing politics. No women on the back porch having a good gossip. My father, who was always “the friend of all friends” to the men in Swat has many visitors but few real friends here
What is compare and contrast?
An earthquake hits the Swat Valley in 2005.
What is an inciting incident?
Vulnerable / Exposed
What are synonyms?
Which of the following sentences from I Am Malala is the best text evidence that exemplifies Malala’s relationship with her father?
“Despite what my father said, I knew that as Safina and I got older, we’d be expected to cook and clean for our brothers.”
“And we woulen’t be allowed to go outside our homes without a male relative to accompany us.”
“But I knew, even then, that I was the apple of my father’s eye.”
“My father paid no mind to these customs.”
What is: "But I knew, even then, that I was the apple of my father's eye."
Malala is the _____ in I Am Malala.
The taliban is the ____ in I Am Malala.
What is protagonist, antagonist?
Malala’s father is confronted by a man who is determined to shut down the Kushal School for girls, Her father convinces the man to compromise by having the girls go through a separate door.
What is problem and solution?
Malala introduces herself and her family and described what it is like for her to live in Pakistan.
What is the exposition?
In Malala's speech at the United Nations, she refers to pens as weapons which seems to give a meaning, or connotation, of a fight against what?
What is terrorism?
Malala showed great courage after enduring an attack from the Taliban. Which evidence from her UN speech best supports this claim?
“Dear fellows, today I am focusing on women’s rights and girls’ education because they are suffering the most.”
“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.”
“We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave - to embrace the strength within themselves and realise their full potential.”
“So here I stand, one girl among many.”
What is: "The terrorists thought that they would chance our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear, and hopelessness died."
The ____ of something might be funny, sad, creepy, cheerful, and so on.
The ____ is the author's attitude expressed through words and details.
What is mood, tone?