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Wounds of War to be Launched Soon

July 19, 2019 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author Leave a Comment

What happens when you don’t plan a thing but it starts to happen itself?

You take it as a divine sign that you must work on it.

This is what happened to me in previous days when a story I wrote came like flashes to me. Then I saw a beautiful picture by an artist Tony Smith and decided to give him a chance with the story.

I didn’t know about him but his dedication to work was a sign again that Allah wants this book to be out in this world.

In the meantime, I also tried to check the manuscript and then I got responses from beta readers that it is a wonderful story.

The cover of the book that is not yet complete is beyond amazing.

Name of the book: Wounds of War

Name of the author: Ayesha Marfani

Name of the illustrator: Antonio M Smith

Target age: 9 onwards

About the Book:

When humanity struggles for power and prestige at the expense of its own children, stories come forth from the midst of such terrors as genocide, ethnic cleansing and forceful occupation clothed in innocent faces and tearful voices. Children are most strongly affected in these dire circumstances.

This leads us to the stories of Sara, Fatima, Hammad and Ali. Their individual stories of heartbreak and pain lead them to Dr. Kamran’s research center, where they have one last opportunity to heal the wounds of war that bleed inside them.

Their lives weave together in this place to show readers that we are not the only ones who have been affected by such terrors. As we survive tragedies to find our world upside down, we all search for a balm to comfort our broken hearts. Read on to discover if these four orphaned children might heal.

Also check previous books by Author Ayesha Marfani on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Ayesha-Marfani/e/B073W8ZQBN

Pakistanis can place the orders on this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NcJ4716OqZBDQoZnCo8-fIPm53C4IbaMQyjNpOH5ZxM

 

 

Filed Under: News Feed Tagged With: children books, children literature, ethnic cleansing, genocides, kidlit, peace, war, war and peace

Making Literature Learning Fun

December 18, 2018 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author Leave a Comment

Here are some amazing techniques to make literature learning fun. Some of the techniques are known to you and some of them are exclusively designed by me.

Happy Teaching!

Exclusive techniques for teaching literature

Role play:
The role play is one of the great strategies to teach literature. The students love to be Oliver twist, Dorothy and when they subrogate the roles they naturally learn the
• Vocabulary
• The cultural frame of the story
• The historical settings in which the story was written
• The writing style of the author and his inspirations

Environmental themes creation
The creation of themes in the classroom based on famous literature novel could be very productive. For example
 The students may make a prop of row and dress like Tom Sawyer
 The students could make the den room like that mentioned in little princes
 The creation of elixir of life from the alchemist
 They could also plan the farm like that in Pollyanna
 Hogwarts school set up as in Harry Potter

Use of props
The teacher could create the props and then expose them to teach the students through them.
 The ring of the lord of the rings
 The wand, cloaks, and broom to teach Harry Potter
 The diary of Anna’s diary
 The pink rabbit for “when Hitler stole the pink rabbit”
 Wonka’s golden ticket and chocolates

Building characters
The students could be asked to create a literary character of their own. First, they may be allowed to go through the famous character in great literature piece then they may create their own character.

Stepping in the shoes of the characters:
The students must be able to tell their
 Action
 Reactions
 Feelings
 Aspirations
if they were Helen Keller or Oliver twist or Matilda or Charlie of Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Imitative writing or Fanfiction:
The students must be asked to decode the theme the author has targeted like
Fantasy
Adventure
Autobiography
Biography
Reflective writing
Magic
Then they may be asked to imitate that and create a piece of writing of their own.

Literature Pandora box:
The students could make their literature Pandora box in which they may collect all the things related to the literature piece.

The students can make the box from the chocolate factory containing
• The egg that hatch and out came the sweet duck
• The squirrel toy
• Oompa Loompas
• Willy Wonka’s golden bar

They can make Harry Potter magical box
o Snitch
o Broom
o Wand
o Hogsmeade items
o Potions etc

Finding life connections
The students learn the things that are relatable o the ordinary lives. They should be asked to make life connection:
A. Similar feelings
B. Like and dislikes
C. Desires and aspirations
D. The event that relates to their life
For example
A student from Farm background would love to relate their life with Polly Ana
The students with only one cousin would love to relate his experience with eight cousins
The students who faced the setback in financial term would draw inspiration from little princess.
Students feeling lonely will found greater pleasure in relating to the secret garden.

Making a drama
 This is the most used yet most successful techniques.
 The students should convert the literature piece into dialogues
 They must decide on characters
They must distribute roles

Innovation in Drama method by creating new endings
The students would love to end the literature drama in their own way.
This would make the literature drama technique more interesting.

Story stones
The students shall be allowed to paint the literature stones during their learning and then develop a literature novel wall on the completion of the literary novel.

Add some techniques in the comments if I missed any.

Filed Under: Learners' Treasure Chest Tagged With: children literature, creative activities, creative learning, creative teaching

Reading Session at Community Libraries and Schools

December 18, 2018 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author Leave a Comment

I spent the children day in a superb way.

I had an amazing session at Beacon House in the morning.

Then I had a fun session organized by Happy Saturday. It was wonderful. The passion of the team amazed me.

The session inspired the writers of the future. The story telling was followed by creative story writing and fun activities.

The winners got amazing gifts.

These sessions were followed by lovely sessions at the community library and Stem Session.

Filed Under: News Feed Tagged With: books for libraries, children activities, children literature, store telling, story teller, we need diverse books

Fairy Tales of Ordinary Children is Available for Purcahse

October 1, 2018 By Ayesha Marfani-Muslim Author 4 Comments

About the Author:

Ayesha Marfani is an internationally published children books author with 5 books being published by Crimson Cloak Publishing USA and now locally publishing her another title that is ‘Fairy Tales of Ordinary Children.’

Target Age: 6 to 13 years

Price: 650 excluding delivery

You can place your order by clicking on this link

https://docs.google.com/…/1vz1oKbW_oveF7edaAs9Cp2ja4cS…/edit

About the book:

Fairy Tales of Ordinary Children tells the stories of a group of friends whose life problems were remarkably similar to the characters from famous fairy tales.

A beautiful girl as white as snow had to cope with a beauty and status-conscious mother and a poor starving boy had only a cow.

A girl with long and blonde hairs was stuck up with her aunt who made potions and a pretty girl faced so many hardships because of her stepmother.

The children waited for the magical turning point in their lives but things got even worse and they lost hope in the term ‘happily ever after.’ One of them located what they lacked in bringing a change in their lives. Soon they knew the secret to live a’ happily ever after life.

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: children books, children literature, diverse books for kids, fairy tales, Pakistani author, stories, we need diverse books

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