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Epigraph - Chapter 3

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Urrea, Luis Alberto. Into the Beautiful North. Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, 2009. First Edition.

• The Epigraph features a quote by Xayacamach of Tizatlán about friends reuniting and sharing stories.

• Spanish words, mixed-language words, and phonetic spellings are interspersed throughout the narrative.

• This Lesson Plan will include the Spanish translation when provided in the text.

• Part One is entitled Sur.

• In Chapter One, Bandidos, bad guys, arrive in the unguarded village of Tres Camarones.

• The setting is late summer in Mexico.

• A history of the villagers’ resistance to change is explained.

• In 1936, visionary mayor, García-García the First, lobbied to bring electricity to the town.

• Some people held out and did not use the new technology.

• Hurricanes occasionally wiped out the forests, jungles, and beaches.

• When the peso dropped...

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