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Prologue and Chapters 1-4

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Bracken, Alexandra. The Darkest Minds.. Hyperion, 2013. Paperback.

• In the Prologue, Ruby is pulling weeds when the White noise goes off.

• Ruby always reacts badly to the sounds.

• Other children are able to shake off the nausea and disorientation in a few minutes.

• Ruby takes hours to be able to get back to normal.

• This time the sound is worse than usual.

• Ruby tries to brace herself, but she finds herself writhing on the ground in pain.

• She tastes dirt and blood in her mouth, and she grinds her face in the ground in agony.

• Then she loses consciousness.

• In Chapter 1, Ruby remembers the past and what has been happening to her and others.

• When she was in the fourth grade, the first person to die in her class was Grace Somerfield...

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