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Part I (Pages 1 - 80)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Monk Kidd, Sue. The Book of Longings. Viking, New York, 2020.

• This book is written in the past tense and from the first person perspective.

• The first section is titled Sepphoris 16 - 17 CE.

• Ana was a 14-year-old girl living in Sepphoris, near Jerusalem.

• Her father Matthias was the head scribe for the ruler, Herod Antipas.

• Ana's mother, Harad, was a beautiful, proud, and vain woman.

• Ana was an only child but had an adopted brother - actually her maternal cousin - Judas.

• Ana's Aunt Yaltha, Matthias's sister, was an independent, strong woman who lived with Ana's family and had once lived in Alexandria.

• Yaltha gave Ana a gift of an "incantation" bowl - an object she brought from her time in Alexandria.

• One was meant to write her intentions or wishes in...

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