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

2. Question of the Week:
How do inventions happen?

3. 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?

4. 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

5. Tested Vocabulary: proclaimed transmitted converts generated
efficiency
percentage
devise
reproduce

6. 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

7. 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.

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

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