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Part I (Chapters 1 - 2)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Evans, Diana. Ordinary People. W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

• This novel is written in the third person, past tense.

• Chapter 1 is titled "M&M." The Wiley brothers in London threw a party in their house in the Crystal Palace neighborhood in London to celebrate the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

• Bruce was one of the Wiley brothers, and Gabriele was the other. Bruce was large and drank heavily, while Gabriele was thinner and more reserved.

• The Wiley brothers, who were black, were excited to put together their playlists and their guest lists.

• The sight of the young Obama daughters on the election night stage was lovely, but for some, it evoked painful connotations of the deaths of four small black girls during the Civil Rights era in a church bombing in the American...

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