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Part I (Pages 1 - 46, Sorrowful Beasts - Sacrificial Beasts)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Ge, Yan. Strange Beasts of China. Melville House Publishing, New York, 2020.

• This book was written from the first-person perspective and in a mix of past and present tenses, which will be noted in each chapter.

• The first chapter, titled "Sorrowful Bests," begins in the present tense. The unnamed narrator details her city, Young'An, in China.

• The narrator describes the sorrowful beasts, the males of which look like humans except for green bellies, fins on their right ears, and scales on the insides of their calves.

• Female sorrowful beasts are beautiful, with reddish skin and narrow eyes. For three days at the full moon they lose the ability to speak and squawk like birds instead.

• Sorrowful beasts never smile, because if they do they cannot stop until...

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