This week fourth graders are meeting to discuss Who Is Malala Yousafzai? by Dinah Brown. The book is an illustrated biography for elementary readers, and it is part of the Who Is ...?/Who Was ...? series.
Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog for the BBC that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She survived a violent attack and has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2013, she published a book entitled I Am Malala, and in 2014, she became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Discussion questions can be found here. Links to videos, speeches and other information about Malala Yousafzai can be found on the Grade 4 page. Happy reading!
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