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Part I (Pages 1 - 70)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Baker Kline, Christina. The Exiles. HarperCollins, New York, 2020.

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

• In the Prologue, it was 1840 on Flinders Island in Australia, and Governor John Franklin and his wife had just visited the area three days earlier.

• Governor Franklin was responsible for overseeing Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony of the British.

• Lady Franklin and Governor Franklin had come on the 250-mile boat journey to Flinders, where the Palawa people, an aboriginal people, lived.

• The Franklins watched as members of the Palawa tribe danced for and entertained them.

• Mathinna, a young girl of about 8 or 9, caught Lady Franklin's eye.

• Mathinna's mother, Wanganip, had died a few months earlier and her father, a Chief in the tribe, had died some years earlier of...

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