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Part I (Pages 1 - 40)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Emezi, Akwaeke. Pet. Riverhead Books, New York, 2021.

• This book was written from the third person perspective and in the past tense.

• In Chapter 1, a young girl named Jam lived in a town called Lucille.

• Before Jam was born, Lucille was full of "monsters," which in this context meant people who did terrible things.

• The "angels," who in this context the reader can assume are activists and community leaders, took charge of identifying and weeding out the monsters

• The angels took control of the prisons and police systems through a revolution that the author described as slow and ponderous.

• It was not a perfect revolution, but it brought far more justice, peace and equity to Lucille than what had existed before the revolution.

• Monuments to the old monsters were taken down and...

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