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Section 1: Tinder

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Crowder, Melanie. Audacity. Philomel Books, 2015. Hardcover.

• The section Tinder begins in 1903 with Clara Lemlich trying to write a poem.

• The poem is snatched out of her hand and someone hits her in the jaw.

• Clara is small-boned and short and she has brown hair and brown eyes.

• She believes that her appearance is as common as a wren and as meek as a robin.

• Her life is ordinary, but she feels like someday she will be able to flex her wings and fly away from the small Jewish village in Russia where she lives with her family.

• Her days consist of doing chores for her mother.

• When she earns money sewing buttonholes for the tailor, she bargains in the market for a scrap of paper with words written on it.

• Across the street...

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