Joe Turner's Come and Gone Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Act 1, Scene 1

• Bynum, who is a boarder in Seth and Bertha's boardinghouse and a conjure man, has asked traveling salesman and People Finder Selig Rutherford to find a spiritual "shiny man" who gave Bynum a vision where he learned his mystical song of people-binding.

• Seth buys metal from Selig every week and sells him pots, pans, and other metalwork, and he's looking for funding to make metalwork his full-time business by hiring and training five other men.

• Jeremy, one of Seth's boarders, was arrested the previous night for drunkenness--though he hadn't had a drink yet--by police who wanted to collect a two dollar fine on the black worker's payday.

• Herald Loomis and his daughter Zonia come and rent a room at the boardinghouse in Herald's search for his wife, Martha, who Seth believes is Martha Pentecost, though he doesn't tell Loomis.

• Mattie Campbell comes to see Bynum to...

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