World Literature Period 2 Week 9 REL 501 Order sequences of events in uncomplicated passages REL 502 Understand relationships between people, ideas and so on in uncomplicated passages GEN 502 Draw generalizations and conclusions about people, ideas, and so on I more challenging passages

Do Now: Monday, October 20th (7) In the do now section of your notebook: Create a KWL about the Six Degrees of Separation theory as shown: Handing out books/ Preview Book– big deal (new to MCP)

Unit 2: Six Degrees of Separation (10) Six Degrees of Separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away from any other person in the world, so that the chain of “a friend of a friend” statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.

Unit 2: Six Degrees of Separation Exploration of Character Analysis Why do characters do the things they do? Significance of readers’ connections to characters. Significance of characters connections to other characters (in any capacity).

Introducing the Kite Runner (7) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtavGjAOJY

Objective: SWBAT explain background information to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.

Khaled Hosseini Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965 Lived in Tehran, Iran, and Paris, France, for parts of his childhood. In 1980, moved to California as a refugee. Graduated from high school, college and medical school in California. Practiced medicine and now a writer. The Kite Runner was his first novel, published 2003. Works with the United Nations Refugee Agency, as a goodwill envoy. In order to understand The Kite Runner, it will be important for students to have knowledge of the author, his background, experiences and inspirations. I would take time to present some detail about Khaled Hosseini. I would also use a video clip of Khaled speaking about his background, from his website. Here is additional detail I might include: His father’s job meant the family moved often when Khaled was young. They were to return home to Afghanistan from France in 1980, when the Russians invaded their native country. His father requested political asylum despite being called back to the country and it was granted. They moved to San Jose, CA. Now lives in Northern California with his wife, son and daughter. He has written one other novel: A Thousand Splendid Suns, published in 2008. He works with the UNRA as a goodwill envoy and holds the issue of refugees close to his heart and hopes to serve as a public advocate for refugees around the world and give voice to victims of humanitarian crises and raise public awareness about matters relating to refugees. Has been to Chad to support refugees from Darfur and hopes to travel to Pakistan to represent refugees from his native country. http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=900

Present Day Kabul, Afghanistan In order to understand The Kite Runner, it will be important for students to have knowledge of the author, his background, experiences and inspirations. I would take time to present some detail about Khaled Hosseini. I would also use a video clip of Khaled speaking about his background, from his website. Here is additional detail I might include: His father’s job meant the family moved often when Khaled was young. They were to return home to Afghanistan from France in 1980, when the Russians invaded their native country. His father requested political asylum despite being called back to the country and it was granted. They moved to San Jose, CA. Now lives in Northern California with his wife, son and daughter. He has written one other novel: A Thousand Splendid Suns, published in 2008. He works with the UNRA as a goodwill envoy and holds the issue of refugees close to his heart and hopes to serve as a public advocate for refugees around the world and give voice to victims of humanitarian crises and raise public awareness about matters relating to refugees. Has been to Chad to support refugees from Darfur and hopes to travel to Pakistan to represent refugees from his native country. http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=900

Present Day Kabul, Afghanistan In order to understand The Kite Runner, it will be important for students to have knowledge of the author, his background, experiences and inspirations. I would take time to present some detail about Khaled Hosseini. I would also use a video clip of Khaled speaking about his background, from his website. Here is additional detail I might include: His father’s job meant the family moved often when Khaled was young. They were to return home to Afghanistan from France in 1980, when the Russians invaded their native country. His father requested political asylum despite being called back to the country and it was granted. They moved to San Jose, CA. Now lives in Northern California with his wife, son and daughter. He has written one other novel: A Thousand Splendid Suns, published in 2008. He works with the UNRA as a goodwill envoy and holds the issue of refugees close to his heart and hopes to serve as a public advocate for refugees around the world and give voice to victims of humanitarian crises and raise public awareness about matters relating to refugees. Has been to Chad to support refugees from Darfur and hopes to travel to Pakistan to represent refugees from his native country. http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=900

Present Day Kabul, Afghanistan In order to understand The Kite Runner, it will be important for students to have knowledge of the author, his background, experiences and inspirations. I would take time to present some detail about Khaled Hosseini. I would also use a video clip of Khaled speaking about his background, from his website. Here is additional detail I might include: His father’s job meant the family moved often when Khaled was young. They were to return home to Afghanistan from France in 1980, when the Russians invaded their native country. His father requested political asylum despite being called back to the country and it was granted. They moved to San Jose, CA. Now lives in Northern California with his wife, son and daughter. He has written one other novel: A Thousand Splendid Suns, published in 2008. He works with the UNRA as a goodwill envoy and holds the issue of refugees close to his heart and hopes to serve as a public advocate for refugees around the world and give voice to victims of humanitarian crises and raise public awareness about matters relating to refugees. Has been to Chad to support refugees from Darfur and hopes to travel to Pakistan to represent refugees from his native country. http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=900

Inspiration… Relationship: Khaled taught Hossein Khan, the family’s racial Hazara cook to read and write despite the social injustice and racial bias imposed by their society. Memories: Fond recollections of pre-Soviet era childhood in Afghanistan. Literature: Persian stories and poems, characters and themes presented in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Considering Khaled Hossseini’s inspirations for writing the novel will be very important. They include relationships, memories and literature in addition to historical context and a desire to share his country with the world. Hosseini about his relationship with Khan: Khan was an ethnic Hazara — a minority that had, at best, been neglected by Afghanistan's Pashtun government, and, at worst, persecuted, for more than 200 years. Khan was about thirty years old — a short, stocky man with black hair. He was very soft-spoken, very gentle. He and I became fairly friendly. I don't know if he had a family, or whether he'd been married, but I do remember he never wrote any letters to, or received any letters from, home. I asked him why that was. He said it was because he couldn't read or write. When I asked why not he said it was because no one had ever taught him. Naturally I said, I'll teach you. I guess I was in the third grade at the time. Within a year he could read and write, albeit with a childlike handwriting. (I used that incident in the novel for the character Soraya.) I was pretty proud of him and myself. He called me 'Professor Khaled' . I don't remember the exact circumstances of how it happened but Kahn ended up moving away. I don't know what became of him. It wasn't until much later that I fully appreciated that my time with Hussein Khan had been my first personal exposure to the unfairness and injustices that permeate society. Here was a man who grew up illiterate, and who was denied the opportunities I was offered as a third grader, simply because of his race. About The Grapes of Wrath: The book’s oppressed migrant laborers in the 1930s are reminiscent of Hosseini’s countrymen as is the theme of selfless sacrifice.

Ethnic Groups in Afghanistan Pasthun Boy Hazara Boy

Try to make a time line… Man does he talk fast… Try to make a timeline of key historical events leading up to Afghanistan’s current state: http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,45950304001_1931954,00.html

Before The Kite Runner Ruled by a monarchy 1933 – 1973: King Mohammad Zahir Shah reigned during the longest period of stability. King Mohammad Zahir Shah in 1963 Since we don’t know a lot about the history of Afghanistan, it will be important to take a quick look at some important milestones. What happened in Afghanistan leading up to the time of The Kite Runner?

Afghanistan during The Kite Runner 1973: King’s brother-in-law wages a war and declares a republic. 1979: USSR invades, kills president and up to 2 million civilians. Over 5 million flee the Afghanistan. 1994: Taliban rise to power in Afghanistan; by 2000 the Taliban occupied about 95% of the country. The book’s protagonist was born in 1963 and the book begins when he is a young boy, in the early 1970s. Within the very first pages of the book, these historical milestones are referenced and they set an important stage for the action throughout the book. Students will receive handouts with timelines and take notes.

Taliban occupation of Afghanistan Supplemental material about Afghanistan HW Pakistan (and Afghanistan relation) : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11451718 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11451718

Kite Fighting in Afghanistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiOFpLd1jKE

Exit Ticket On a half sheet of paper write: Three facts you learned about Afghanistan and/or the Taliban Two pieces of information you learned about the author One question you still have about the book