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Chapters 1-3

The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinner. Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre, 2000. Hard cover.

• In Chapter 1 although she is an 11-year-old girl, Parvana goes to the Kabul market with her father daily to help him walk there.

• He is missing a lower leg, and he cannot walk without her.

• She is not supposed to be outside.

• The Taliban has ordered women and girls to stay inside their homes, and girls are not allowed to go to school.

• Parvana and her sister Nooria had to leave school, and their mother lost her job as a writer for a radio station.

• Her father lost his leg and was injured internally, when his high school where he taught was bombed.

• Father earns money by reading letters people receive and writing responses.

• Parva and her family are one of the few...

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