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Chapter One

- This lesson plan is made using the following text: I’ll Give You the Sun. Nelson, Jandy. Dial Books, published by the Penguin Group. 2014.

- The novel is begins with four quotes from Rumi, Keats, Willa Cather, and E.E. Cummings.

- Chapter One is told from Noah’s perspective at age 13 under the title “The Invisible Museum.”

- Noah is stopped by two surfer boy characters, Zephyr and Fry, who start bullying him.

- The boys have a history of teasing Noah.

- One of the boys grabs Noah while the other rips through his sketchbook.

- There are naked drawings of Michelangelo and the guys ask why Noah is drawing these.

- Noah tries to defend himself by saying it is Michelangelo.

- Noah realizes with horror that there is a picture of the two boys that he drew and if they see...

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