Explorers, Pioneers, and Discoverers Unit 4 Week 5 Day 1

Question of the Week: How do inventions happen?

Skill: Author’s Purpose Authors always have a reason for writing To persuade To entertain To express To inform What is the author’s purpose for writing The Breadwinner?

Strategy: Monitor and Clarify If you have difficult understanding something, you should slow down to check your understanding and clarify things you do not understand Do not skip over something you do not understand

Tested Vocabulary: proclaimed transmitted converts generated efficiency percentage devise reproduce

Spelling: Words that end in –ty, -ity, and -ion electricity reduction cruelty equality tradition subscription society loyalty reputation specialty security intention celebrity clarity deception recognition popularity penalty description certainty

Who vs. Whom The pronoun “who” is used as a subject Who won the race? The pronoun “whom” is used as the object of a preposition and as a direct object She was a student whom the teacher knew.

The Breadwinner Chapters 1 and 2 Setting? Characters? Plot?

Independent Work: 4.5 Tested Vocabulary Read Chapters 3-4 of The Breadwinner Reading Guide Questions 4.5 Spelling Menu Read choice novel