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Writers Notebook

• Title The Breadwinner
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• FREE WRITE Write down everything you remember
  about the story.
• You can write a list or freewrite.
• Think characters, setting, theme, plotanthing
  you remember.

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What is a breadwinner?
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The Breadwinner

• By
• Deborah Ellis
• Created by Julie Mann, McCleskey Middle School
• 7th Language Arts, 2010-11

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chador

• A piece of cloth worn by women and girls to cover
  their hair and shoulders

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burqa

• A loose, usually black or light blue robe, that
  is worn by Muslim women, especially in
  Afghanistan, and that covers the body from head
  to toe.

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shalwar kameez

• shalwar - a pair of light loose trousers with a
  tight fit around the ankles worn by women from
  the Indian subcontinent
• kameez - a long tunic worn by many people from
  the Indian subcontinent

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toshak

• A narrow mattress used in many Afghan homes
  instead of chairs or beds

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Taliban

• a fundamentalist Islamic militia (military) who
  took over Kabul, Afghanistan in 1996 and set up
  an extremist Islamic government that enforced a
  strict Muslim code of behavior