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Chapters 1 - 3
• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy. Random House, 2018.
• This chapter is set in Connecticut, 1992.
• The narrator unlocked the safe beneath their desk, grabbed an old service automatic, and crept toward the bedroom doorway.
• A few moments passed, just enough time for the narrator to feel ridiculous; they convinced themselves that what they had heard was just the house settling.
• Poochini, the family’s German shepherd, was in the bedroom with the children, and let out a bark.
• The narrator had been up working on a translation at the desk in their room, and it was after two in the morning when they had gone to bed.
• They thought they had heard a floorboard creak in the hall, and had instinctively gone for their gun.
• Suddenly a man appeared in their bedroom.
• The narrator lunged low...
This section contains 11,109 words (approx. 38 pages at 300 words per page) |
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