For the pupils who were in Sweden...

To be sent to my email box for Wednesday February 15th, at the latest...

Friday, February 3rd 2017.

Malala’s autobiography

-        From a country that was created at midnight

-        Was almost killed: just after midday

-        One year ago : left her home for school… never returned

-        Shot in the head by a Taliban bullet

-        Flown out to Birmingham, England / taken to hospital

-        Believes in her heart she will return one day to Pakistan…

-        In England: speaks about her life

o  Open her eyes: clothes over the floor / school prizes on the shelves / every convenience you need (water running from the tap / electricity) / cooking / packets /

o  Open the window: tall buildings & long roads… pavements

o  Close her eyes: her friends and teachers from Pakistan / the Swat Valley / green waving fields / fresh blue rivers / water from rivers or from the well

o  Her mind = transports her to her school / best friend (Maniba): talking & joking (feeling she’s never left Pakistan)

=> Opposition between life in England and life in Pakistan (centuries behind)

1997: she was born in the mountain-fringe city of Mingora, in the Swat Valley.

2008: She began to fight for girls’ education in Pakistan.

2009: The Taliban overran her city / The Taliban denied the right to education to girls / Malala started writing her diary (from January to March)

2009: she became the subject of a documentary (on TV)

2012: at the age of 15, she was an outspoken critic of the tactics of the Taliban.

Oct 9^th 2012: she almost died when she was shot by Taliban who boarded the open-back truck she took to go to school.

End of 2012: she was flown to Great Britain where she was treated for her injuries at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

2013: she spoke to the UN / she published her memoir “I am Malala” / She met Barack Obama / she met the First couple in the White House

2014: she won the Nobel Peace Prize / she was in a chemistry class when she heard about it. / she changed her mind and decided she would be a politician, not a doctor…

At 17, campaigner Malala, the schoolgirl the Taliban could not silence, becomes youngest Nobel peace prize recipient.