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Chapter One
• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Offill, Jenny. Weather: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf Books, 2020. E-book.
• The novel’s epigraph is placed on page 12 and the quote is taken from the transcript of a town meeting in a settlement in Connecticut in the late seventeenth century.
• The quote from the transcript sees the settlers using circular logic in order to declare themselves owners of the land by first declaring that the Bible says that the earth belongs to the saints, and then by declaring themselves to be saints.
• Chapter One begins on page 15.
• Lizzie, the protagonist of the novel, is currently helping patrons at the university library where she works.
• She discusses a particular adjunct professor who talks to her about his dissertation in philosophy.
• The dissertation about some minor philosopher is not yet complete, even though it has...
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