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Write a 300 words article about Nora Inayat Khan and her involvement in the SOE.
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Mention her family situation

Her main actions in the SOE
What she represents for the period
Organize with relevant catch phrase titles
Use laudatory vocabulary
Make comparison or build images
I did not copy the notes; I transformed,
improved and made them mine.
I used at least one exclamation form
My grammar is globally correct

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Information about Nora Inayat Khan:

- Nora/Noor Inayat Khan (Noor = light of womanhood)

- Daughter of Hazart Inayat Khan (great grandson of Tipu Sultan), born in Moscow,
1st January 1914.
- father = a musician and teacher of Sufism
- mother = Ora Ray Baker, an American from New Mexico
- Parents meeting = Hazart travelling in the USA.
- 1914 from Russia to the UK; early 1920s to Paris; 1927 = fathers death -> Noor =
head of the family
- Studied psychology and music at the Sorbonne; afterwards = wrote childrens
stories, most famous = Twenty Jataka Tales,1939.
- In November 1940 (26) = joined the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) ->
learned her wireless operating skills .
- In 1942 -> Special Operations Executive (SOE) F (French) section
-> failed to complete several aspects of her SOE training but spoke fluent French and
was a good wireless operator and the need in the Paris area was great.
- Noor = the first female radio operator (before women = couriers)
- Code named Madeleine; in France night 16th/17th June 1943 with two others
- In the following six weeks many of the radio operators = caught by German and
Vichy French authorities.
- Normally quiet Noor -> refused to be withdrawn back to Britain; 1st October 1943
= betrayed by SOE agent
- Noor = resist interrogation + tried to escape
- On 11th September = 1944 moved -> Dachau concentration camp and shot. A
Dutch prisoner testified: Noors last words = Libert.
- Nature of British society at the time: The role of women in society = changing but
long way to go (women vote = 1928) women still = home makers and wives.
- The idea of Indian independence = controversial subject in Britain.

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Write a 300 words article about Nora Inayat Khan and her involvement in the SOE.
Content
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Article conventions
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Adaptation of notes
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Grammar
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Mention her family situation

Her main actions in the SOE
What she represents for the period
Organize with relevant catch phrase titles
Use laudatory vocabulary
Make comparison or build images
I did not copy the notes; I transformed,
improved and made them mine.

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I used at least one exclamation form

My grammar is globally correct

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Information about Nora Inayat Khan:

- Nora/Noor Inayat Khan (Noor = light of womanhood)

- Daughter of Hazart Inayat Khan (great grandson of Tipu Sultan), born in Moscow,
1st January 1914.
- father = a musician and teacher of Sufism
- mother = Ora Ray Baker, an American from New Mexico
- Parents meeting = Hazart travelling in the USA.
- 1914 from Russia to the UK; early 1920s to Paris; 1927 = fathers death -> Noor =
head of the family
- Studied psychology and music at the Sorbonne; afterwards = wrote childrens
stories, most famous = Twenty Jataka Tales,1939.
- In November 1940 (26) = joined the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) ->
learned her wireless operating skills .
- In 1942 -> Special Operations Executive (SOE) F (French) section
-> failed to complete several aspects of her SOE training but spoke fluent French and
was a good wireless operator and the need in the Paris area was great.
- Noor = the first female radio operator (before women = couriers)
- Code named Madeleine; in France night 16th/17th June 1943 with two others
- In the following six weeks many of the radio operators = caught by German and
Vichy French authorities.
- Normally quiet Noor -> refused to be withdrawn back to Britain; 1st October 1943
= betrayed by SOE agent
- Noor = resist interrogation + tried to escape
- On 11th September = 1944 moved -> Dachau concentration camp and shot. A
Dutch prisoner testified: Noors last words = Libert.
- Nature of British society at the time: The role of women in society = changing but
long way to go (women vote = 1928) women still = home makers and wives.
- The idea of Indian independence = controversial subject in Britain.