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Part I: Saigon 1975: Year of the Cat to Criscrossed Packs

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lai, Thanhha. Inside Out & Back Again. Harper Collins Children’s Books. 2011. Paperback.

· In Part I, “Saigon,” “1975: Year of the Cat,” Ha and her family celebrate Tet, the first day of the lunar calendar.

· They enjoy special foods and wear new clothes.

· Mother warns the children that how they act on that day foretells what will happen that day.

· No matter how they feel, everyone must smile.

· Everyone gains a year in age on this day, no matter what day they were born.

· Tet “doubles as everyone’s birthday” (2).

· Ha is ten and learning to embroider, calculate fractions, and nurse a papaya tree to produce fruit.

· It is customary for one of her brothers to rise first in the morning to bless their house because only...

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