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Chapters 1-5

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Vanderhaeghe, Gary. Homesick. Ticknor & Fields, 1990. First American edition.

• In Chapter 1, Alec Monkman dreams of the time when he was an ice-cutter.

• The dream turns to a nightmare when he dreams that he falls and is trapped under the ice.

• He wakes still fighting the error, cold, and shivering he felt in his dream.

• As he looks around his bedroom, he thinks how he has never liked water.

• His first job was building bridges.

• He was 14, and his father worked on a bridge construction crew.

• His father believed that children needed to work early.

• He had seen his first man killed.

• A “half-breed” (12) had fallen from a trestle 60 feet into the river.

• They found his body on a snag.

• Stutz knew about his dream, and Stutz thought Alec’s arthritis made him ache in...

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