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Chapters 1-5

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Green, John. Turtles All the Way Down. Dutton Books 2017. Hardback.

• In Chapter 1, Aza is a junior at White River High School in Indianapolis.

• She is eating lunch with her friends, Daisy Ramirez and Mychal Turner.

• Mychal is talking about an art project he is working on.

• However, Aza is distracted by considering the microbes in her body that help her digest food.

• She begins to think about a microbe caused bacterial infection, and she wonders if she has an infection.

• Aza has a lot of anxiety.

• To help her cope, she presses her thumbnail into the pad of her middle finger.

• There is a callus built up from doing this for many years.

• Daisy mentions a boy, Davis Pickett, that Aza went to camp with.

• Daisy says that the boy’s wealthy father...

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