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Chapters 1 - 2

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Crucet, Jennine Capó. Make Your Home Among Strangers. Macmillan, 2015.

• Make Your Home Among Strangers is a contemporary novel that tells the story of narrator and protagonist Lizet Ramirez, the daughter of first-generation Cuban immigrants, as she attempts to reconcile her history, culture, and family within a new setting at the elite Rawlings College.

• Chapter 1 begins ten years after the main timeline of the rest of the novel with Lizet describing the canal by her childhood home in Miami.

• Lizet is now the manager of a research lab and is studying the destruction of coral reefs across the globe.

• Lizet describes a horrific list of items and pollutants cast into the canal by her childhood home and makes it a point to describe these at weekly group meetings in order to make the...

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