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· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Perez, Ashley Hope. Out of Darkness. Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., 2015. Hardcover.

· The book covers different time periods from the past to the present.

· The chapter abstracts use the present tense and provide a linear summary.

· Historical sections of the novel are told from a third-person perspective.

· Other sections of the novel are also told from a third-person perspective, but from the viewpoint of Wash, Beto, Naomi, or Henry.

· These sections are titled for the focus character they follow.

· In the “Prologue, New London, Texas: March 18, 1937,” work lamps, spotlights, Christmas lights, and stadium floodlights light up the area around the New London school.

· Workers crawl through the rubble searching for survivors, but they mostly find bodies, or bits of bodies.

· Red Cross volunteers hand out cigarettes and sandwiches.

· They serve coffee.

· It begins to...

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