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How We Survive - The American Devil

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Gratz, Alan. Ground Zero. Scholastic Press, 2021. Hardcover.

· In “Brandon – How We Survive,” Brandon Chavez has been suspended from school and is heading into Manhattan with his father who works at the Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

· It is a beautiful September day.

· On the subway, Brandon’s father lectures him for punching someone.

· Brandon tries to explain that he punched Stuart Pendleton, a bully, who took Cedric’s Wolverine gloves.

· Brandon’s father tells him that punching someone was not the answer.

· Brandon does not think he should have been suspended for punching a bully.

· Brandon and his father see a man near the escalator struggling to balance his briefcase, a newspaper, and a tray of three coffees...

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