My Forbidden Face Reading Guide

Student Name: ______

Please download this form and type in your answers. You will need to upload this to turnitin.com for credit and turn in a printed copy. This guide will help you keep track of events in the novel, as well as point out essential vocabulary. This study guide is REQUIRED and will count as a test grade! Fill everything out, following all directions. **This copy is for you to make notes on and to look through. The graded copy will need to be typed.**

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. The facts you write on the right DO NOT need to be in complete sentences.

List the Countries that Border Afghanistan, According Do some Internet research and give one interesting fact to the map on page Viii. about each country.

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.

 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 Example sent. From book: “My father is also a that the President has been hung on Sept. 27th, 1996 Pashtun…” (Latifa 5) (This is called parenthetical 1996. 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:

Compelling Passage 1: “Our country needs its 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 Event 5: 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 VOCABULARY AND COMPELLING PASSAGES

Event 1: CHADRI (p. 37): 1996 Example sent. from book:

Event 2: Jan. 1997 MAHRAM (p. 37): Example sent. from book:

Event 3: Winter 1997 Compelling Passage 1:

Event 4: [optional for higher grade]

Feb. 1997 Event 5: [optional for higher grade]

Compelling Passage 2: Timeline, Vocabulary, and Compelling Passages:

MAIN EVENTS FROM CHAPTER CHAPTER THREE VOCABULARY AND COMPELLING PASSAGES

Event 1: Oct. MULLAH (p. 73): 1996 Example sent. from book: (Flashback)

Event 2: MUJAHIDEEN (p. 88): Summer 1998 Example sent. from book:

Event 3:

1993- Compelling Passage 1: 1996 Event 4: (Flashback)

Summer Event 5: 1998 Compelling Passage 2: Timeline, Vocabulary, and Compelling Passages:

MAIN EVENTS FROM CHAPTER CHAPTER FOUR VOCABULARY AND COMPELLING PASSAGES

Event 1: Aug. JIIHAD (p. 97): 1998 Example sent. from book:

Event 2: 1993 (Flashback) Compelling Passage 1: Event 3: 1986- 1992 (Flashback within Flashback) Event 4: [optional for higher grade]

1993 Compelling Passage 2: (Flashback) Event 5: [optional for higher grade]

Aug. 1998 Timeline, Vocabulary, and Compelling Passages:

MAIN EVENTS FROM CHAPTER CHAPTER FIVE VOCABULARY AND COMPELLING PASSAGES

Event 1: Winter MOSQUE (p. 119): 1998 Example sent. from book:

1985- Event 2: 1989 TALKHAN (p. 132): (Flashback) Example sent. from book:

1964 Event 3: (Flashback)

Winter Compelling Passage 1: 1999 Event 4: [optional for higher grade] 1988- 1999 (Flashback)

Event 5: [optional for higher grade] 1991- 1994 (Flashback) Compelling Passage 2:

Winter 1999 Timeline, Vocabulary, and Compelling Passages:

MAIN EVENTS FROM CHAPTER CHAPTER SIX VOCABULARY AND COMPELLING PASSAGES

Event 1: Winter NIKHA (p. 156): 1999 Example sent. from book:

1994 Event 2: (Flashback) CHELAK (p. 160):

Example sent. from book: July 1998 Event 3: (Flashback

Winter Event 4: [optional for higher grade] 1987 Compelling Passage 1: (Flashback)

Winter Event 5: [optional for higher grade] 1999

Compelling Passage 2:

Timeline, Vocabulary, and Compelling Passages:

MAIN EVENTS FROM CHAPTER CHAPTER SEVEN VOCABULARY AND COMPELLING PASSAGES

FATWA (p. 197): Event 1: Winter Example sent. from book: 1999

Event 2: AZADI (p. 199):

Example sent. from book:

2000 Event 3: Compelling Passage 1:

Event 4:

Feb. Compelling Passage 2: 2001 Event 5:

Do some research on the Internet and find three facts about what is going on in Afghanistan today (anytime from July- November 2010). 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: - ______

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Fact 2: ______

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Fact 3: ______

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