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Front Matter, Song (1), and I

· The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jeffers, Honorée Fannone. The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois. HarperCollins, 2021.

· To facilitate study, this Lesson Plan assigns and references the unnumbered and untitled Song sections in numerical order.

· Following a dedication, a gloss of family trees, and an epigraph, Song (1) begins with a protracted discussion of familial origins.

· A section titled “The Boy Named Micco” describes the geography of Micco’s origins and his immediate familial history.

· A historical gloss of the area is provided, noting the colonization of the area by slaving English settlers and their predations.

· A new section, titled “The Grandfather of the Boy,” reaches further back from Micco, noting the arrival of Micco’s grandfather in the area as a young man.

· The potential perils of the young man’s arrival are noted...

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