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Part 1

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Zusak, Markus. Bridge of Clay. Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. First edition (hardcover).

• Bridge of Clay is a contemporary family saga that follows the story of the five Dunbar brothers as they come to terms with the death of their mother and the abandonment of their father. It is largely set in Australia.

• The central character of focus in the novel is Clay Dunbar, the second-youngest of the Dunbar boys, yet the narrative is related from the first-person perspective of Matthew Dunbar, the eldest brother.

• The novel employs a framing device wherein it begins and ends in the same place: with Matthew Dunbar sitting at his family’s kitchen table typing Clay’s story – and the greater story of the Dunbars – on an old TW typewriter that he dug up from a backyard along with...

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