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Part I (Pages 1 - 59)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Majumdar, Megha. A Burning. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2020.

• This book was written from a blend of the first and third-person perspectives, and it is written in a blend of the past and present tenses, with the present tense dominating.

• In The first section, Jivan, Jivan was a young Muslim woman from the slums who has witnessed a terrible terrorist attack on a train near her home.

• Her area, the Kolbagan slum, was in turmoil, because it was where the attack had occurred.

• Jivan scrolled on her new phone through Facebook and added her own comments to the feeds.

• Jivan saw a story that the police had witnessed the train attack and burning - the terrorists had thrown lighted implements through the train windows and more than 100 people had died -...

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