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Part I (Pages 1 - 55)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jones, Cherie. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2021.

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

• In the Prologue, it was 12th September 1979, and a young Black girl in Barbados, Lala, was out later than expected.

• Lala's grandmother Wilma had gotten home from the hospital where she was visiting her husband Carson.

• Wilma was upset because she worried Lala would get into all kinds of trouble.

• Lala was a teenager.

• To scare Lala, Wilma told her the tale of the One-Armed sister, a girl from long ago who was the daughter of a village vicar.

• The vicar had two daughters, one obedient and one impulsive.

• The impulsive sister went to the tunnels to...

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