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Part I (Pages 1 - 80)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Acevedo, Elizabeth. Clap When You Land. HarperCollins, New York, 2020.

• This book was written from the first person point of view and mainly in the present tense, except where the two narrators experience flashbacks. It alternates between the narration of Camino Rios and Yahaira Rios.

• In Part I, Camino is a 16-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic with her Tia (Aunt) Solana.

• Camino says she knows too much about mud, and where she lives, it sucks her feet and sticks to everything.

• Mud has a mind of its own and Camino has to clean her feet every night, and her Tia tells her not to let it stain her.

• For Camino, mud is like quicksand and it is a reminder that she hungers for a more stable place other than where...

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