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Part I, Chapter 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: O’Farrell. Hamnet. Alfred P. Knopf. 2020. First edition.

• Part I, Chapter 1 begins on page 5.

• Hamnet opens with a little boy named Hamnet leaving his empty apartment to go outside on a summer day.

• The apartment, which he shares with his mother and sisters, is adjacent to his grandparent’s house.

• His grandfather built the apartment.

• The boy can see that there is nobody in his grandparent’s house or his grandfather’s workshop.

• The boy calls out the names of everyone who lives there; he almost calls for his father until he remembers he is in London.

• The narrative shifts to a description of what Hamnet is like at school — smart, but easily distracted, particularly by what he sees or hears outside school walls— a cart traveling down the street, a bird...

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