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Part I (Pages 1 - 45)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Shapiro, Dani. Signal Fires. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2022. Hardcover.

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

• Part I begins in August 1985 with characters Sarah and Theo Wilf, siblings.

• Sarah is 17 and Theo 15, and they are driving in their parents' car.

• Sarah had been drinking and had persuaded a reluctant Theo to drive, even though they both knew it was a bad idea.

• Misty Zimmerman, a friend of Sarah's, is riding in the front seat next to Theo.

• Sarah wishes Theo, a shy and awkward teenager, would show more bravery and courage, and thinks that making him drive might give him an infusion of what she thought was much-needed verve.

• But Theo is mostly nervous.

• Theo dropps his hot cigarette lighter on himself when they...

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