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• The text of the short story, “The Skylight Room,” that was used to create this Lesson Plan was taken from the book: Henry, O. The Stories of O. Henry. The Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover.

• A second-person narrator describes what it is like to look for a room at Mrs. Parker’s boarding house.

• The narrator explains how Mrs. Parker shows prospective roomers her most exclusive rooms, the double parlors, and how if you confess you are not a doctor or dentist, she will become condescending.

• The narrator describes the shame you will feel that your parents did not raise you in a profession that could use the double parlors.

• Next, she will show you the second-floor-back which rents for $8.

• She will talk about Mr. Toosenberry who used to have the room until he went to take charge of his brother’s orange plantation in Florida.

• Then Mrs...

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