Mating | Overview & Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Chapter Abstracts

Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief, but can serve to be an excellent refresher of the text for either a student or teacher.

Chapter 1 (pages 5-32) Abstract

* The reader is introduced to the narrator, who's an unnamed 32-year-old American graduate student.
* She has just finished 18 months studying the effect of seasonal nutritional availability and its effect on fertility in the African bush and is on her way to Gaborone.
* She arrives in...
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