Chapter 1

 

Now that we have read chapter 1 together and discussed it, consider the following:

 

What do we now know about the story?

 

 

List all of the key information we have been given about:

the setting:

the characters:

the main issues or ideas:

the style or structure:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journal writing:

Ask students to imagine that they are Parvana and write a diary entry after this day in the marketplace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Afghanistan, it would be very dangerous to keep a diary. Why?

 

 

Setting, age, father's literacy