Read Chapters 1-3.
Common Core Objectives
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Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.
Content Summary for Teachers
Chapter 1
The novel opens with the narrator revealing that Dellarobia Turnbow is about to go through with a decision that will throw her life away. The 28-year-old housewife and mother of two is wearing her best boots, trekking up a hill on the property where she lives (her husband's family’s farm) to have an affair with a young “telephone man.” As...
