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Chapters 1 - 3 (p. 1 - 26)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes. Little, Brown and Company, 2018.

• This preface is written in the first person, present tense.

• The narrator notices how small they look laid out flat.

• The narrator’s stomach is touching the ground.

• The narrator stoops and stares at his own face, his right cheek flattened on the concrete.

• His eyes are wide open; his mouth is, too.

• The narrator is dead.

• His arms are outstretched like he is trying to fly like Superman.

• He had barely turned before two bullets hit him and he fell hard, hitting the snowy ground.

• The narrator’s Ma is running, wailing.

• A policeman holds her back.

• Another policeman is standing over the narrator, murmuring, “It’s a kid, it’s a kid” (3).

• Ma is struggling, gasping like she cannot breathe...

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