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Chapters 1-7

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Renee, Watson. Piecing Me Together. Bloomsbury, 2017.

• The novel begins by the narrator, Jade Butler, a high school student at an elite private school, poetically explaining why she wants to learn Spanish.

• Jade explains how her mother wanted her to attend St. Francis, a majority-white private school in Portland, Oregon.

• Jade and her mother discuss how Jade should make more friends at St. Francis but then shares a story about how it is hard for her to relate to many of her wealthy classmates.

• Jade explains how going to St. Francis is a good opportunity for her and that she must take it "for girls with coal skin and hula-hoop hips" (7).

• Next, Jade narrates her ride to school as the bus she takes each morning passes from her "'hood" (8) to the wealthier parts of...

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