https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s Browse Newsela and/or National / Local Newspaper sources and find articles that relate to the themes and/or thesis of the novel, "Wanting Mor." Provide the link the article as well as a formal explanation of how the article connects to: - characters - plot - themes - thesis - setting - conflicts (person vs. self, etc) en-us 2017-11-08 03:23:52 UTC 2017-11-09 18:22:25 UTC hello@padlet.com luke_sloan https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/204999735 Here is an article published on November 6, 2017, about teenage girls in Tunisia being taught politics normally only taught to males in that country: https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-06/grassroots-efforts-tunisia-advance-women-s-rights. This education is not approved by the Taliban, who despite not having physical presence in Tunisia, still have a degree of influence, so the education of girls in the nation is normally kept quiet. This is similar to Jameela secretly starting to learn the alphabet from Masood in chapter 7 of Wanting Mor. When she is discovered by her stepmother, she is not satisfied. She herself was most likely refused education due to her gender, and even she did not believe in female education due to the Taliban's impact on the Middle East. 

By Luke. ]]> 2017-11-08 18:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/204999735 https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205005478 This was published Nov 7,2017. In Kabul with lots of war and destruction, "a suicide bomber and another attacker" supporting ISIS were responsible for the attack. 2 security guards were killed one male and one female.http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/isis-suicide-bomber-hits-local-tv-in-kabul-at-least-2-killed-1.3666557. It was one of many attacks launched by ISIS in their desperate state to regain power. ]]> 2017-11-08 19:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205005478 ckp1091 https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205388868 Malala was a girl shot in the forehead by the Taliban for going to school. She has now become an activist against the ban not allowing girls to go to school. This girl persevered and now is learning school. In Wanting Mor, Jameela wanted to learn how to write her name, and when Masood helped her, her stepmother hated this. She hated this because Jameela would be smart and be able to do something else than cleaning the house and doing all the chores. The Taliban did not want Malala to learn school because she would become smart and know that what the Taliban was doing was wrong. Without school, she would not know what they were doing was wrong. Just like Malala, Jameela persevered and in the orphanage started to learn school.  Overall, this story about Malala connects to the book through the theme of Malala and Jameela both becoming mentally stronger by persevering to go to school.

- Christian]]> 2017-11-09 17:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205388868 https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205415109 This is an article about a shooting at a church. At least 26 people were killed. This shooting was one of the biggest gun massacres in the USA]]> 2017-11-09 18:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205415109 https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205415656 This article is about an Afghan boy who gets surgery to get a new arm when he lost his arm when he touched an electric wire trying to untangle his kite. This relates to Masood because he lost his leg while in a mine field and he later gets a new one.]]> 2017-11-09 18:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205415656 https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205427301 2017-11-09 18:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/erin_v_doak/mchwmogk0n3s/wish/205427301