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Prologue – Chapter 3

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Jenkins, Jedidiah. To Shake the Sleeping Self. Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018. Kindle Edition.

• To Shake the Sleeping Self is a memoir by Jedidiah Jenkins describing the author’s bicycle journey from the central Oregon coast to Patagonia. This almost 14,000-mile trek was driven by the author’s thirtieth birthday and his desires to come to terms with his life’s path, his identity, his religious background, and his sexuality.

• In the Prologue, titled “The Itch,” the author establishes some of his backstory and what inspired him to plan the journey. He opens, “I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside patterns you follow” (1).

• The author discusses how...

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