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Chapters 1 – 6

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Cameron, W. Bruce. A Dog’s Way Home. Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2017. Kindle edition.

• The narrative of this contemporary novel comes from the unique first-person perspective of its protagonist, a mixed-breed dog named Bella.

• In Chapter 1, Bella describes her first memories, which are of cats.

• Bella was born in a crawlspace beneath a row of dilapidated houses and amongst a large feral cat colony.

• When Bella is not nursing with her siblings, she goes to a corner in the crawlspace where a cat that Bella calls Mother Cat cares for her own litter. Bella plays with Mother Cat’s kittens every day.

• One day, while Bella is nursing, two men appear with flashlights and discover the cat colony in the crawlspace. They refer to Gunter and discuss calling an exterminator.

• Bella’s mother...

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