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"Cheetah" - "Let it Burn"

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Doyle, Glennon. Untamed. The Dial Press, 2020.

• Glennon Doyle’s memoir/self-help book extols her emergence from society’s cages and her embrace of an untamed life.

• The narrative of the book is related from the author’s first-person perspective yet alternates between past and present tense.

• In the opening Prologue, titled “Cheetah,” the author describes going to a safari zoo with her wife and two daughters where a cheetah run was featured.

• The zookeeper brought out a retriever named Minnie and said that Minnie had been raised with the cheetah, Tabitha, in order to train the cheetah.

• The zookeeper released Minnie, who chased a stuffed rabbit tied to a Jeep, and then released Tabitha, the cheetah, who followed the same action.

• Tabitha was awarded a steak and the audience...

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