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Active Reading Worksheet #12 (MILHOLM WINTER 2015) Videos on Khmer Rouge and Nelson Mandela from class, Chapters 17- 21 of Creating Room to Read and “Malala Yousafzai’s Speech on Education (United Nations NY, July 12, 2013)”Name:__________________________________ Class_______________ Date_____________Questions: (Answer in complete sentences)Questions 1-7 from Nelson Mandela Video, Khmer Rough TED Talk, and Malala speech1. What is apartheid? How does it compare to the Jim Crow Laws in the south before the Civil Rights Movement?2. What were some of the lessons Mandela learned in college?3. In Sophal Ear’s presentation, what does Ear say about child soldiers?4. What is the United Nations?5. In her speech, how does Malala appeal to other cultures, other religions, and other countries?6. What do you think is the most powerful part of the speech? Explain why.7. The apartheid government in South Africa, the Khmer Rouge, and terrorists like the Taliban all have something in common: they fear the freedom to get a quality education. Why would they be scared of people, especially children, going to school?Questions 8-16 are from Chapters 17- 21 of Creating Room to Read8. Describe Mr. X and how you felt when you read about him. What does it show about John Wood that he uses the pseudonym “Mr. X,” instead of Mr. X’s real name? 9. Explain what Literacy One is and how it helps Room to Read in Cambodia. 10. What obstacles does Sunita face in her battle to get an education? 11. In Chapter 19, “Frantic Footsteps in the Night,” Wood writes about what can happen when children don’t get an education because it leaves a vacuum in that valuable time in their lives. What are some of the things he has witnessed or that he mentions can fill that void in children’s lives where an education should have been?12. What is a Sheikh? 13. What is Dubai Cares and what did it do during Ramadan? 14. How much money did Dubai Cares raise and how did Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the constitutional monarch of Dubai, help?15. What is Chris’s big goal for what Dubai Cares can do and how Room to Read can help? 16. What is the American Dream? How is Tha an example of The American Dream? ................
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