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· The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Erdrich, Louise. "The Leap." http://catherinedaigle.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/8/2/19823597/the_leap_full_text.pdf

· The story opens with the narrator describing her mother, now blind, who had been part of a “blindfold trapeze act” (para. 1).

· The narrator’s mother is the only surviving member the two-person her act.

· The narrator’s mother lives in New Hampshire where, despite loss of sight, she never loses her balance, bumps into things, or knocks anything over.

· The narrator wonders if her mother’s grace is in part due to her training with the Flying Avalons.

· The mother does not otherwise behave like a performer and has no keepsakes from her times as one.

· The narrator indicates that she owes her life to her mother three times over.

· The first has to do with an event that...

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