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English 9 KPK

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar

Bibliographic record

BoardKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar
Class9
SubjectEnglish
MediumEnglish
CurriculumNational Curriculum 2006
Edition2006-curriculum reprint
ApprovalDCTE Abbottabad, NC-2006 series
Pages161
File size22.1 MB
PDF producerA-PDF Watermark 4.7.6

Analysis

Still labelled a Test Edition, this 2006-curriculum reader is simultaneously the most religiously saturated English reader in the corpus and the one that does the most interesting comparative work with that material. It has the highest religious-term density of any English reader measured, at 6.22 per thousand, opening with a lesson on the Prophet as a model of tolerance and carrying a Hazrat Umar famine lesson, hence A1 4. But its fifth unit places the Madina Charter directly beside the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, renders several UDHR articles, and sets the task of comparing the two. No Punjab or Sindh English unit puts an Islamic source text next to an international instrument this way, and it is the only teaching of a named international rights instrument anywhere in KP, absent from both KP Pakistan Studies books; that yields A2 3 and A6 1, though the framing is vindicatory rather than neutral. It is also the least gender-balanced volume in the corpus by pronoun ratio, with no gender unit at all, and it contains no Nishan-e-Haider, as no KP English reader does.

Evidence tier

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

Measured scores

A1 Religious saturation 4
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.

observation religion lens A1 = 4 English OCR #e01

Lesson 1 Prophet Muhammad , the Model of Tolerance opens the book; a unit pairing The Madina Charter with the 1948 UDHR; a Hazrat Umar famine lesson. Highest religious-term density of any English reader in the corpus (6.22/1,000).

quotation civics lens A2 = 3 PDF p. 49 English OCR #e02

Unit 5 pairs The Madina Charter with the UDHR, PAGE 49–55: "In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nation unanimously adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights"; the thirty articles are named as "thirty points" and several are rendered — equality, freedom from torture, protection by a law that "is the same for everybody", and the right to take part in the government of one's country [this last sentence is OCR-fused in the source and is not quotable]. Task: "Compare Madina Charter with the UN Human Rights Charter." PAGE 55. Framed as vindicating Islam: "shows that Islam is the greatest proteceor of Human Rights" PAGE 51 [OCR: proteceor]

absence patriotism lens A5 = 1 English OCR #e03

Zero. Role model is The Fantastic Shoemaker, a Peshawar artisan. No Nishan-e-Haider in any KP English book, classes 6–9

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 English OCR #e04

Unit 5 pairs The Madina Charter with The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a single unit: "The Universal declaration of Human Rights: … approved on 10th December, 1948… We are all free and equal. We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way." (p.~52). No Punjab or Sindh English unit places an Islamic source text beside an international instrument this way.

observation gender lens A7 = 4 English OCR #e05

Lowest-scoring reader in the corpus; no gender unit; The Old Woman (Joseph Campbell) is an elegiac, passive figure

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 2

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.

Militarismmedium confidence

KP's entire martial load sits in its Urdu reader and stops after class 8. Its English-medium pupils never meet it. Sindh has no military martyr anywhere in its corpus; its only shaheed is a civilian doctor.

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.

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Provenance

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Identifiers and permanent link

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Permanent link/books/kptbb-english-9-en/
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board, Peshawar, English 9 KPK, 2006-curriculum reprint. Catalogued by the Textbook Evidence Project as kptbb-english-9-en, corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from /books/kptbb-english-9-en/

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