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Part I (Pages 1 - 81)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Brundage, Elizabeth. All Things Cease to Appear. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2016.

• This book was written in a mix of past and present tenses, although mainly in the past tense, and from the third person perspective.

• The book begins with a single page that is written in the present tense and from the second person plural perspective.

• The Hale farm and house has many stories and a dark history.

• The farm "sings" for its lost families, and many of those families and the visitors that came pillaged the house.

• Part I, written from the third person perspective and from the past tense, begins on February 23, 1979.

• George Clare carried his young daughter Franny to his neighbors' house, the Pratts.

• It was snowing and George was shaken, saying someone had broken into the...

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