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· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Powers, Richard. Bewilderment. W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. Hardcover.

· On pages 1-44, Theo Byrne and his son Robin (Robbie) are on vacation in the Smoky Mountains two days before Robin’s ninth birthday.

· They set up a telescope on the deck of the cabin they rent and talk about the possibility of life on other planets.

· Theo had pulled Robin from school for a week and brought him to the woods because there had been more trouble with his classmates, and they needed a time-out.

· Robin wants to sleep outside, so they spread beds on the deck of the cabin.

· They recite “his mother’s old secular prayer” (3).

· Theo does not believe the diagnoses doctors try to pin on his son.

· He remembers when the school suspended Robin for two days and sent him...

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