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Part I (Pages 1 - 62, Chapters 1 - 6)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Hawkins, Rachel. Reckless Girls. St. Martin's Press, New York, 2021. Hardcover.

• This book was written from a mix of first and third-person perspectives, which will be noted at the start of each chapter/section, and in a mixture of tenses, which will also be noted.

• In the Prologue, which is written from the third-person perspective and in the present tense, an unknown woman is drowning.

• She is in pain, but then there is a kind of peace.

• She slips underwater and does not come up.

• At this point Hawkins inserts an excerpt from a travel book that explains that Meroe Island was home to a shipwreck of the HMS Meroe - the ship that gave the island its name.

• The sailors of the HMS Meroe were marooned during the late...

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