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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lesson Plan

Introduction to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Set in England during World War II and published in 1950, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tells the story of four young siblings who are sent to live with an old professor so they can escape the air raids in London. While living with him, the youngest sibling, Lucy, discovers a magical world--Narnia--by stumbling through a portal in the back of a wardrobe. Not long after that, her brothers and sister join her in Narnia and unwittingly find themselves in the middle of a battle between good and evil. A prophecy which says all four of them will be kings and queens of the magical country seems to be the force by which they are called not only to rescue their brother Edmund from being...

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