Freedom Fighters: Viewpoint in an Article

Freedom Fighters: Viewpoint in an

Article about Malala Yousafzai

I can Identify an author's viewpoint

Multiple Choice

to share information, ideas, or viewpoints

• Author’s viewpoint

• Setting

• Communicate

• Blog

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the time, place, and situation in which events in a text occur

• Author’s viewpoint

• Setting

• Communicate

• Blog

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an online diary with personal reflections and comments

• Author’s viewpoint

• Setting

• Communicate

• Blog

Multiple Choice

an author’s opinion or position about a topic

• Author’s viewpoint

• Setting

• Communicate

• Blog

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A journal is one way a writer can share personal experiences, ideas, and viewpoints.

A journal can include:

Check all that apply

• discussions of daily activities.

• comments on current events.

• descriptions of hopes and dreams.

• stories of past memories.

• discussions of hobbies and interests.

Open Ended

Malala is a freedom fighter born in 1997.

At age 11, she began a blog about her life.

Why do you think the blog was published under a pen name, or secret identity?

Multiple Choice

Which sentence in the passage contains the author's viewpoint?

1 Most banks offer savings accounts for adults, families, and children. 2 All young people should open their own savings accounts. 3 When you keep money in a savings account, you earn interest. 4 Interest is extra money the bank gives you for just keeping your money with them.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

Setting can give clues about a story’s ________.

• plot

• conflict

• mood

• all of the above

Open Ended

How do you think Malala's father felt about education?

Multiple Choice

Which statement best reflects the author’s viewpoint in “Pakistan’s Malala”?

• Malala went against the Taliban’s edict by continuing her education after she was banned from going to school.

• Malala is currently in Great Britain recovering from injuries she suffered at the hands of the Taliban

• Malala risked her life to stand up for the rights of women and girls in Taliban-ruled Swat.

• Malala is a brave and wise girl who continues to have a global impact on women’s right to education.

Multiple Choice

Which excerpt from “Pakistan’s Malala” shows Malala’s viewpoint?

• "I have the right of education," she said in a 2011 interview with CNN. "I have the right to play. I have the right to sing.”

• “She loves school, homework. Whenever she would meet me she had a bookbag full of books.”

• “In her BBC blog, Malala wrote on the eve of the edict that she had just ended her routine winter break from school.”

• “Malala wondered on her blog if she should adopt a pen name – Gul Makai.”

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the author Ashley Fantz’s view of Malala in “Pakistan’s Malala”?

• She admires Malala’s courage and strength.

• She envies the fame Malala has gained.

• She is entertained by Malala’s story.

• She disagrees with Malala’s message.

Multiple Choice

Which detail from “Pakistan’s Malala” best expresses how the setting influenced the residents of Swat Valley?

• “Parents kept their daughters home to protect them.”

• “Girls who are scared should fight their fear, she said.”

• “You go to the playground and you play, so that's what they did.”

• “The Taliban would come for her again if she managed to survive. . . .”

Multiple Choice

Read the excerpt from “Pakistan’s Malala.”

On the blog, she praised her father, who was operating one of the few schools that would go on to defy that order.

"My father said that some days ago someone brought the printout of this diary saying how wonderful it was," Malala wrote. "My father said that he smiled, but could not even say that it was written by his daughter."

Now that active and imaginative mind could be gone.

Which sentence best reflects Ziauddin Yousufzai’s view of his daughter’s writing?

• “On the blog, she praised her father, who was operating one of the few schools. . . .”

• “My father said that some days ago someone brought the printout of this diary saying how wonderful it was,” Malala wrote.

• "My father said that he smiled, but could not even say that it was written by his daughter."

• “Now that active and imaginative mind could be gone.”