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English 6 KPK

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar

Bibliographic record

BoardKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar
Class6
SubjectEnglish
MediumEnglish
CurriculumNational Curriculum 2006
Edition2006-curriculum reprint
ApprovalDCTE Abbottabad, NC-2006 series
Pages193
File size30.8 MB
PDF producerA-PDF Watermark 4.7.6

Analysis

A 2006-curriculum English reader of about twenty units, printed by DCTE Abbottabad and reprinted unchanged for years. Its distinctive feature is the corpus's only named non-Muslim Pakistani child protagonist: Vikram Singh, a Peshawari Sikh boy who introduces himself in the first person to teach form-filling, and whom the class is then asked to write about. That single passage carries the A6 score of 1, and it is quotable because the book is English-medium. The book also runs a full seven-page Democracy lesson comparing monarchy and elected government and naming the National Assembly, Senate and the five-year cycle, which is why A2 sits at 3 rather than the 4 or 5 the other KP readers earn. A1 is 3 because the book nonetheless opens with a Prophet lesson. Militarism is 1: the word army appears once, in a grammar drill. Researchers should note that KP prints its contents pages as decorative images, so roughly half the unit titles in the source analysis are reconstructions from body text, and the scan carries mirror-site advertising pages.

Evidence tier

scanned   English OCR — quotation permitted after re-verification by exact string match.

Measured scores

A1 Religious saturation 3
A2 Civic thickness 3
A5 Militarism 1
A6 Othering 1
A7 Gender conservatism 4

Axes not listed were not scored for this book — coverage is uneven by design. All axes run 1–5, where 1 is the secular/pluralist/open pole. See the method.

Evidence recorded 5

Three kinds, deliberately styled apart. A quotation is verbatim wording and is only ever taken from English-medium text. An observation describes structure or theme — the only kind permitted for Urdu and Sindhi material, which this project never quotes. An absence is a negative result: a probe was run and returned nothing, which is the weakest claim made anywhere on this site.

quotation religion lens A1 = 3 PDF p. 8 English OCR #e01

Lesson 1 Hazrat Muhammad , Rasool of Mercy opens the book (english-6-en · PAGE 8); comprehension question "Who is the last Prophet of Allah Almighty?" · PAGE 9. Offset by the corpus's only non-Muslim child protagonist, the Sikh Pakhtun Vikram Singh.

quotation civics lens A2 = 3 PDF p. 50 English OCR #e02

A full lesson, Democracy, PAGE 50–56: monarchy vs democracy, "The people had no voice in the affairs of the state. This form of government is called 'monarchy'"; elections; "If they rule according to the wishes of the people, the people respect them, if not, they are removed"; "According to the law qf our country, elections are to be held after every five years" [OCR: qf for of]; National Assembly, Senate, Parliament, President, PM. Pair task: "Democracy grants every citizen certain rights but these rights cannot be possible without performing [duties]" PAGE 56

absence patriotism lens A5 = 1 English OCR #e03

Zero martial content. Unit 8 Taxila, unit 17 Qissa Khwani Bazaar, unit 18 the Sikh Pakhtun boy Vikram Singh. The word "army" occurs once, as a grammar drill: "The army walked across the land" (english-6-en · line 3043)

A negative result. It records that a probe was run and found nothing — not that the thing is not in the book. Where this rests on Urdu material the correct reading is not established, never absent, because degraded Nastaliq OCR cannot tell those apart.

quotation othering lens A6 = 1 PDF p. 173 English OCR #e04

The corpus's only named non-Muslim Pakistani child protagonist, in a first-person self-introduction used to teach form-filling: "My name is Vikram Singh. I am 8 years old. I live in Peshawar. My father's name is Karan Singh. He is a businessman and has a cloth shop in Qissa Khawani Bazar. I speak Pashtu because I am born and bred in Peshawar but I am also fluent in Punjabi. I am a Sikh and a proud Pakhtun Pakistani." (p.173). The follow-on exercise has the class fill in his form, including the field "Religion:", and then write about "Vikram Singh, the new boy in your class" (p.174).

observation othering lens A6 = 1 English OCR #e05

Mowgli, the cat-and-fox fable, Julia Carney; no adversary framing.

Every passage recorded for this book is shown above — nothing is withheld or truncated. Each item has a permanent anchor, so a single piece of evidence can be linked and disputed on its own.

Findings that cite this book 1

Militarismhigh confidence

Punjab is the only board that puts military martyrdom in an English reader, and its class-6 reader carries three separate martial texts. The same Nishan-e-Haider roll appears in its Urdu reader in the same year — the board is redundant across media at age eleven. Punjab's militarism peaks at the start and falls steadily to matriculation, which is the opposite of the usual assumption that this material arrives as pupils get older.

A finding states and cites; it does not argue. The argument is in the studies. Where a finding has counter-evidence it is printed above, in the same block, because a finding that hides its counter-evidence is a worse finding rather than a stronger one.

Availability of the book itself

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Provenance

Local filekptbb-kp/class-6/english-6-en.pdf
Copy retrieved
SHA-256 of the analysed file6bbf3c4e89289a42edf0ae23590cfaaca6522cc754e63090c762a4486d173827
Sourcehttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1a8zclG37EpH-reRY-OnKfBEVtXxlsBsg

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Identifiers and permanent link

Record IDkptbb-english-6-en
Permanent link/books/kptbb-english-6-en/
This record as data/books/kptbb-english-6-en.json · whole dataset

The record ID is an accession number that happens to be readable. It never changes, even if the metadata encoded in it turns out to be wrong — if this book's board, class, subject or medium is corrected, the correction appears in the fields above and the ID stays as it is. That is the only way a link made today still resolves in ten years. The full rule is in the standards.

Cite this record

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar, English 6 KPK, 2006-curriculum reprint. Catalogued by the Textbook Evidence Project as kptbb-english-6-en, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/kptbb-english-6-en/

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