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Chapters 1-2

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Palacio, R. J. Pony. Alfred. A. Knopf, 2021. Hardcover.

· Chapter 1 begins with a newspaper article from the Boneville Courier dated April 27, 1858.

· The article tells how a ten-year-old boy was walking near Boneville when a violent storm arose.

· The boy took refuge under a large oak tree just before it was struck by lightning.

· The boy was sent tumbling to the ground and his clothes were charred.

· His father saw the boy as he was struck, and he took a pair of fireplace bellows and revived the boy.

· The boy suffered no aftereffects except for an image of the tree “emblazoned upon his back” (3).

· This “’daguerreotype by lighting’ is one of several documented in recent years” (2).

· Silas, the boy hit by lightning, then tells how his experience led his father to become interested in photography...

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