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Part I, Chapters 1-2, Pages 1-48

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ng, Celeste. Our Missing Hearts. Penguin Press, 2022. Hardcover.

• This book does not have named or numbered chapters, so for ease of reference within this lesson plan, the chapters have been numbered.

• In Part I, Chapter 1, a letter arrives on Friday with a sticker: “Inspected for your safety--PACT” (3) as all letters do.

• There is no return address, only a six-day-old New York, NY postmark.

• On the outside is the name “Bird” (3).

• Because of this he knows the letter is from his mother.

• He has not been Bird for a long time.

• His mother told him he was named Noah after his father’s father.

• He had come up with the name Bird on his own.

• The school did not like it.

• When teachers complained, Bird’s mother told them that...

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