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Chapter 1: "Jojo"- Chapter 2: "Leonie"
· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing. Scribner, 2017. Hardcover.
· The story is narrated by several first-person narrators.
· Chapters are titled with the name of each narrator.
· In Chapter 1, “Jojo,” it is Jojo’s 13th birthday, and he goes with his grandfather, Pop, to kill a goat.
· Jojo's grandmother, Mam, and sister, Kayla, are still sleeping.
· The house they live in, Pop built narrow and long and close to the road leaving the property behind wooded.
· His pigpen, goat yard, and chicken coop are in small clearings in the trees.
· As they walk, Jojo remembers getting whipped when he was six for running around the pen barefoot.
· Pop told him he could get worms and then later told Jojo how he and his sisters and brothers played barefoot and got worms.
· Pop ties...
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