Push Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 124 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Push Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 124 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1

• Claireece Precious Jones is sixteen at the book's opening and should be a junior in high school, but is a ninth grader.

• Precious was held back in the second grade for not being able to read and left school when she was twelve to have a baby.

• Precious' baby has Down's Syndrome and the baby was fathered by Precious' father Carl, who has been raping Precious since she was in the second grade.

• Precious begins her story on September 24, 1987 while she is on her way to Mr. Wicher's math class.

• Precious likes her teacher, but yells at him because he asks her to open her book to page 122 when she cannot read.

• Precious sits in the back of the class without talking and yells at other students who are out of line.

• The students respect Precious because she is over two hundred pounds and they are scared...

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