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Chapters 1-3

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ghosh, Amitav. Sea of Poppies. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Hardcover.

• In Chapter 1, Deeti, sees a vision of a tall-masted ship on the ocean.

• Deeti has never seen such a ship before or traveled outside of her village.

• She grows poppies, and her vision occurs at the end of winter when the poppies have been slow to shed their petals.

• She rises early and lays out clothes and food for her husband, who works at the opium factory.

• The factory is only three miles away, but Hukam Singh cannot walk because he was wounded in the leg when he served as a sepoy in British regiment.

• Deeti’s six-year-old daughter Kabutri is sleeping.

• Deeti decides to let her sleep, since the girl will be married in three or four years and will have enough...

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