You Are the Author: Creating Chapter Titles

Name: Lance Tugade

When an author creates chapter divisions, they must make several choices. Sometimes they choose to simply number the chapters. This might be because they want readers to think for themselves. Other times they use chapter titles to set the scene, create curiosity or foreshadow upcoming events.

In this activity, you will take on the role of the author and create a title for each of the 15 chapters in Iqbal. Your titles should be what you think Fatima would have chosen as an appropriate title to reflect and represent her experiences. Then you need to make 2-3 point form notes which explain the events which made you think of this title.

Chapter

Title Point Form Notes

1 “Fatima’s Life” Fatima Describes where she works and why

Describes daily working conditions Iqbal arrives

2 “The Courageous Boy” Iqbal worked better than everyone

Fatima meets Iqbal Iqbal tells a story

3 “Iqbals Childhood” Iqbal had many masters before Hussain

Khan Fatima’s father is in debt Iqbal tells Fatima they’re going to escape

4 “The Blue Bukhara” The children learned Iqbal could make a Blue Bukhara

Iqbal told the children that the lines on the slates can never be erased

Foreign costumers arrive 5 “The Ruined Carpet” Foreign costumers arrive

Iqbal ruined the Blue Bukhara Iqbal was forcefully sent to the tomb

6 “A Place Where One Cannot See”

The children defines the tombs

description The children made a plan to help Iqbal The children gave Iqbal food

7 “The Escape” Iqbal was released

Iqbal began to work again Iqbal escaped the carpet factory

8 “The Bribe” Hussain Khan realized Iqbal escaped Iqbal and the police came to the carpet

factory but Hussain wasn’t arrested Iqbal was sent to the Tomb and Maria

made a carpet that had a kite on the middle

9 “The City” Iqbal talked to the children about the city

Iqbal took a bus throughout the city Iqbal and the kids made a plan

10 “My Teacher Maria” New spring Maria teaches kids how to read Iqbal escaped again

11 “Won Freedom” The BLLF arrived at the factory The kids won their freedom and stayed at

the BLLF house The children flew a kite

12 “Liberation” Iqbal, Maria, and Fatima stayed at the

BLLF house Iqbal helped liberate children People threw Incendiary bombs to the

BLLF house 13 “The Very Horrible Place” They arrived to a Brick Factory

Iqbal and the BLLF tried to talk the people

into escaping the place They all returned back to the BLLF house

14 “America” Iqbal won the Reebok award Iqbal practices his speech he is giving to

people Iqbal departed to America

Fatima went to her home town

Iqbal received prize

Iqbal went to school Iqbal sent a mail that

made Fatima cry 15 “The Beloved Letter” Maria wrote a letter to Fatima

Iqbal went to his home town Iqbal died

Epilogue

“They” Iqbal was killed on Easter Sunday Believed the carpet mafia killed Iqbal Died about 13 years old