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Chapter 1: Tribulations and Chapter 2: Preparations

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: O’Connell, Mark. Notes from an Apocalypse. Doubleday, 2020. E-book.

• An epigraph section is provided.

• Chapter 1: Tribulations begins on page 1.

• Mark O’Connell discusses an incident from the past.

• When his son was three years old, they were watching cartoons together on the couch.

• As O’Connell’s son watched a funny bear dancing and laughing on the television, O’Connell held his phone over his son’s head.

• On the phone, he clicked on a video showing an emaciated polar bear pulling itself along the tundra.

• The polar bear had been reduced to starvation due to the effects of climate change.

• O’Connell reflects on the disparity between these two images.

• He uses the video to represent the real state of the world and the cartoon to represent the state...

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