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Prologue to Part One: Chapters 1-3

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jahren, Author Hope. Lab Girl. Alfred Knopf, 2016. Hardback.

• In The Prologue, Jahren compares the amount of life in the ocean to the amount of life on land.

• She states that there is 600 times more life on land than in the ocean.

• She asks readers to look out their windows.

• Although readers will see man-made objects, they will also see plants.

• Plants are one of the few things in the world not made by man.

• Jahren discusses looking at a tree, and then looking a leaf from a tree.

• She writes that people kill trees all the time.

• She believes that people should care about a tree dying as much as they care about a person dying.

• She comments that she wants to tell readers stories from “one scientist” (4) to...

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