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Friday, Chapter One - Chapter Five

· The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan; Figueroa, Jamie. Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer. New York: Catapault, 2021.

· Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer is from the perspective of a narrator who directly speaks to us, the readers, as he or she tells the story; this story is in present tense.

· Friday, Chapter One, begins with the sister, Rufina, singing a melancholy song about a lost baby.

· Rufina is expert at drawing in her audience in the plaza of Cuidad de Tres Hermanas at the end of May at 4:10 p.m. on a Friday.

· This is a story about Rufina and her brother, Rafa, who are performing what the narrator calls little creatures – “eruptions of noise. Prayers, fortunes” (3).

· Rufina and Rafa’s mother has recently died, and the two seem to have reverted back to childhood, instead of being 28 and...

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