My Forbidden Face Reading Guide - nicolejenkins

My Forbidden Face Reading Guide Student Name: ___________________________________________ Block ___________________________________ This guide will help you keep track of events in the novel, as well as point out essential vocabulary. This study guide is REQUIRED! There is a glossary of terms at the back of the book, as well as a general historical timeline of events in Afghanistan that will enhance your reading experience. List the Countries that Border Afghanistan, According to the map on page Viii.

Do some Internet research and give one interesting fact about each country.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

When reading a novel, you should ALWAYS read the preface or epilogue! So, read the preface on pages ix-xi and answer the following question in at least four COMPLETE SENTENCES: Do you agree that teenagers in America could care less about other oppressed cultures in the world? Explain why or why not.

Timeline, Vocabulary, and Compelling Passages: For each chapter, choose three to five main events and give a one sentence explanation of those events in the boxes to the left. Giving only three events will get you an average grade of a C. If you want a higher grade than a C, you will need to give four or five events from each chapter. On the right, define the provided vocabulary words (see the glossary in the back of the book) and give the sentence in the book where the word is used and properly document it (see example). Also on the right, give two compelling passages from the chapter (no more than three sentences each). These should be copied directly from the book and properly documented (see example). The passages you choose should relate to one of the main events you wrote down on the left. Examples are given of each required element in Chapter One. MAIN EVENTS FROM CHAPTER

CHAPTER ONE

VOCABULARY AND COMPELLING PASSAGES PASHTUN: dominant ethnic group

Event 1: Farad knocks on the door to announce that the President has been hung on Sept. 27th, 1996.

1996

Example sent. From book: “My father is also a Pashtun…” (Latifa 5) (This is called parenthetical documentation. All of your example sentences should be in quotation marks with Latifa (the author) and the page number (page 5 for this sentence) you found the sentence on in parentheses.)

Event 2: PAKOL (p. 6): Example sent. From book: Event 3: SHARIA (p. 17): Example sent. From book: Event 4: [optional for higher grade] Compelling Passage 1: “Our country needs its

Event 5: [optional for higher grade]

women. For years, women have held jobs in the civil service, education, and health care. There are so many widows, so many children, so many preventative measures to be taken, so many medical emergencies to cope with, so many daily battles with people’s ignorance of modern medicine” (Latifa 14).

Compelling Passage 2:

Timeline, Vocabulary, and Compelling Passages: MAIN EVENTS FROM CHAPTER

CHAPTER TWO

Event 1:

CHADRI (p. 37):

1996

Event 2:

VOCABULARY AND COMPELLING PASSAGES

Jan. 1997

Example sent. From book:

MAHRAM (p. 37): Example sent. From book:

Event 3:

Winter 1997




Feb. 1997 Compelling Passage 2:


Event 1:

CHAPTER THREE

Oct. 1996


MULLAH (p. 73): Example sent. From book:

(Flashback)

Event 2: MUJAHIDEEN (p. 88):

Summer


1998 Event 3:



19931996


(Flashback)

Summer

1998



Event 1:

CHAPTER FOUR

Aug. 1998


JIIHAD (p. 97): Example sent. From book:

Event 2:

1993 (Flashback)

Compelling Passage 1: Event 3:


19861992 (Flashback within Flashback)

1993 Event 5: [optional for higher grade]

(Flashback)

Aug. 1998



Event 1:

Event 2:

CHAPTER FIVE

Winter 1998 19851989 (Flashback)

Event 3:


MOSQUE (p. 119): Example sent. From book:

TALKHAN (p. 132): Example sent. From book:

1964 (Flashback


Winter 1999


19881999 (Flashback)


19911994 (Flashback)

Winter 1999



Event 1:

Event 2:

CHAPTER SIX

Winter 1999


NIKHA (p. 156): Example sent. From book:

1994 (Flashback)

CHELAK (p. 160): Example sent. From book:

Event 3:

July 1998 (Flashback


Winter 1987


(Flashback)


Winter 1999 Compelling Passage 2:


CHAPTER SEVEN


FATWA (p. 197): Event 1:

Winter 1999

Event 2:


AZADI (p. 199): Example sent. From book:

2000 Event 3:


Event 4: [optional for higher grade] Compelling Passage 2: Event 5: [optional for higher grade]

Feb. 2001

Do some research on the Internet and find three facts about what is going on in Afghanistan today (anytime from JanuaryFebruary 2012). One of the facts must be about the status of the Taliban in Afghanistan today. You may use only one Internet source and you MUST print the site you use and staple it to the back of this packet when you turn it in. Each fact you write should be paraphrased (no more than 3 words in a row from the original source) in your own words and not copied from the source. Each fact must also be a complete sentence.

Give the website address you used. Remember google.com and yahoo.com are search engines and not website addresses! http://___________________________________________________________________________________ Fact 1: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fact 2: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fact 3: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________