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Part I (Pages 1 - 47)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Alam, Rumaan. Leave the World Behind. HarperCollins, New York, 2020.

• This book was written in the past tense and from the third-person perspective.

• In Chapter 1, Amanda and Clay and their two children, Rose, 13, and Archie, 15, took a vacation from their home in Brooklyn to a rented vacation house near the beach in the Hamptons.

• Clay, a college professor, and Amanda, an account director at an advertising firm, looked forward to the vacation that Amanda had planned.

• Amanda secretly liked to get calls from her work colleagues even on her vacation because they made her feel important and necessary.

• Traffic was not so bad, but it got worse as they approached their destination.

• The family stopped for fast-food burgers.

• Rose wanted to persuade her mother to see if they could visit a friend...

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