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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Hudes, Quiara Alegria. Water by the Spoonful. Theatre Communications Group, 2012. E-book.

• Before the first scene of the play appears, there is a note about the play Water By the Spoonful's inclusion within The Elliot Trilogy: Eliot, A Soldier's Fugue, Water by the Spoonful, and The Happiest Song Plays Last.

• Therefore, the play Water by the Spoonful is the second play in a trilogy created by Hudes.

• In Scene 1, cousins Yazmin and Elliot are eating breakfast together at a diner in Philadelphia.

• Yazmin has arranged a meeting with an unknown person who will soon be joining their group.

• Elliot prevails upon Yazmin for help with his mother's headstrong ways that are causing her to eat unhealthily while going through chemotherapy treatments for her cancer.

• Elliot reveals that he had been with his mom that...

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