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Part I (Pages 1 - 35)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Chariandy, David. Brother. Bloomsbury, New York, 2018.

• This book is written in a mix of the present and past tenses and from the first person perspective.

• Michael is a young Black man living in Canada, and Part I opens with Michael remembering climbing a hydro pole with his older brother, Francis.

• The pole was a great lookout, Francis told Michael.

• Francis told Michael to be careful as he climbed the pole, or he was liable to fall.

• Francis told Michael that he had to remember each step he took, even as he took the next one.

• Memory, according to Francis, was about the present.

• In Chapter One, Aisha, a childhood friend and old flame of Michael's, has come back to their neighborhood in Canada after a long stretch away.

• Aisha had been...

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