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Part I (Pages 1 - 22)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Keegan, Claire. Small Things Like These. Faber, London, 2021. Hardcover.

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

• In Chapter 1, it was winter in New Ross, a small town in Wexford, Ireland.

• Bill Furlong was the coal and timber merchant in town and was known as an honest, upstanding man.

• Furlong made most of the deliveries himself during busy times in the cold winter, but he had men working under him. The men often ate at the town restaurant Kehoe's.

• The men would eat heartily as Mrs. Kehoe would serve up hot food and then they would go out to work again.

• In Chapter 2, Bill Furlong had been born to an unwed mother in New Ross in 1946, on April 1st.

• His mother's family had abandoned her...

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