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Prologue-Chapter 8

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Levy, Andrea. Small Island. St. Martin’s Press, 2004. Paperback.

· In the Prologue, Queenie Buxton and her family visited the British Empire Exhibition.

· Queenie’s family ran a butchering operation.

· The trip was organized by the Butchers’ Association.

· Every year an outing was organized for the butchers, their wives and children, and the butchers’ favorite workers.

· Queenie was taken around the exhibit with Emily and Graham, young people who were working on her family’s farm.

· She encountered a Black man who she was surprised to hear speak perfect English.

· She shook his hand, and it was like shaking “anyone else’s” (5).

· In Chapter 1 in 1948, Hortense Roberts arrives in London from Jamaica.

· As she rings the bell to the house where her husband is supposed to be, she remembers her friend Celia Langley from the...

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