<p>PARVANA: Afghanistan WebQuest Put your googling skills to the test and search the web for the answers </p><p>Learning Goals Names:</p><p> Determine best sources  Locate the information within the sources  Take notes (remember--focus on your questions!) </p><p>Complete the following table in dot points</p><p>What do I already What do I want to What have I learnt know about learn about this topic? today, that I didn’t Afghanistan and the know before? Taliban?</p><p>WHAT IS LIFE LIKE IN AFGHANISTAN? 1. What continent is Afghanistan located on? 2. What countries surround Afghanistan?</p><p>3. What is the capital city of Afghanistan? 4. What are the main languages spoken in Afghanistan?</p><p>WHAT ARE THE CLOTHING AND FOOD LIKE IN AFGHANISTAN? 5. Do you think people in Afghanistan wear the same clothing as us? </p><p>6. What food do you think people in Afghanistan eat? 7. What is the difference between a burqa and a chador? 8. What is a toshank? 9. What is eid?</p><p>10. What is a pakul?</p><p>1 11. Describe a shalwar kameez.</p><p>12. What type of food is nan? Describe it.</p><p>WHO ARE THE TALIBAN? http://www.factmonster.com/spot/taliban.html 13. Where have you heard of the Taliban before?</p><p>14. What is the Taliban?</p><p>15. What activities were banned under the Taliban ?</p><p>WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN BEFORE AND AFTER THE TALIBAN? See photocopied article attached title: “The Situation of Women in Afghanistan” 16. What was life like for women before the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan?</p><p>17. What is life like after the Taliban were overthrown in Afghanistan?</p><p>WHO IS THE AUTHOR-DEBORAH ELLIS?</p><p>18. Why do you think the author chose to write a novel on life in Afghanistan? </p><p>19. Would you want to write a novel on life in another country? Why/why not?</p><p>20. What inspired Deborah Ellis to write Parvana?</p><p>21. Where are all the royalties from the sales of Parvana going? </p><p>2 Student Self Evaluation</p><p>Name: Assignment: Date:</p><p>1. How much time did I spend on this assignment?</p><p>2. Describe the process you went through to complete this assignment</p><p>3. What problems did you encounter and how did you solve them?</p><p>4. Who gave you helpful suggestions? What were they? </p><p>5. What aspect of the assignment did you find difficult and or challenging?</p><p>6. What are the strengths of your assignment?</p><p>7. If you were to grade this assignment, what grade would you give yourself and why?</p><p>3 8. What new strategies or skills did you try and how successful was this attempt?</p><p>9. What did you learn in the process of completing this assignment?</p><p>4</p>