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The Falls - Sibilla

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell. Hogarth, 2019.

• This chapter is written in the first person past tense.

• It sounds like a sentence: Victoria Falls.

• The narrator came for the Falls, and he stayed for them, too.

• The narrator will never forget the first time he saw the Falls; he was lost in rapture.

• The narrator is Percy M. Clark, and he marked the first time he saw the Falls on a baobab tree on May 8, 1903.

• Afterward, he set out for the drift five miles above the Falls, the port of entry into North-western Rhodesia.

• At first it was called Sekute’s Drift, then it was Clarke’s drift, named after the first white settler.

• No one knows when it became The Old Drift.

• The Old Drift was then a small settlement of...

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