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Chapters 1-9

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Garmus, Bonnie. Lessons in Chemistry. Doubleday, 2022. Hardcover.

· The storyline moves back and forth through time.

· The chapter abstracts use the present tense and provide a linear summary.

· The story is told through third-person omniscient narration.

· In Chapter 1, “November 1961,” in the town of Commons in Southern California, Elizabeth Zott is 30 years old and the star of the TV show Supper at Six.

· She rises before dawn every morning and thinks how her life is over.

· She packs her daughter’s lunch before she leaves and writes notes that she puts in Madeline’s lunch box.

· Madeline has been reading since she was three and now that she is five, she has read most of Dickens.

· Madeline is the type of child who can “hum a Bach concerto,” (2), but cannot tie her shoes.

· She can...

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