1. 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
• Fatima Describes where she works and why
1 “Fatima’s Life”
• Describes daily working conditions
• Iqbal arrives
• Iqbal worked better than everyone
2 “The Courageous Boy”
• 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 • The children defines the tombs description
See” • The children made a plan to help Iqbal
• The children gave Iqbal food
• Iqbal was released
7 “The Escape”
• Iqbal began to work again
• Iqbal escaped the carpet factory

2. 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
Epilogu
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“They” • Iqbal was killed on Easter Sunday
• Believed the carpet mafia killed Iqbal
• Died about 13 years old