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Part One

• The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Khorram, Adib. Darius the Great Is Not Okay. New York, Dial, 2018.

• The first chapter, “The Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities,” opens with Darius struggling to operate the water boiler—which he nicknames Smaug—at his workplace, Tea Haven; his manager, Charles Apatan, looks on as Darius works against the machine and muses on its, his own, and his manager’s inadequacies.

• Darius muses on the interactions among tea, his family, and his Persian background, rehearsing an old joke with his mother as he does so; Charles’s literal-mindedness is contrasted with the joke.

• Darius continues to mentally disparage his present workplace, turning to muse upon his desired workplace, Rose City Teas; he is interrupted by the arrival of Trent and Chip; the former addresses him by an insulting nickname, which prompts rumination by...

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