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Part I (Pages 1 - 72, Chapters 1 - 7)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Harris, Nathan. The Sweetness of Water. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2021.

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

• In Chapter 1, George Walker, a middle-aged man who lives around Old Ox, Georgia, walked through the woods near his house.

• George came upon two young Black men, Prentiss and Landry.

• They were brothers who were recently freed slaves from George's neighbor's farm, Ted Morton.

• George also farmed himself but never owned slaves.

• Prentiss was the brother who talked and Landry stayed completely silent during George's interactions with them.

• George told the brothers he was tracking a strange beast that he had not yet found but felt was in the woods.

• Prentiss asked George to please be quiet as the brothers were hunting food.

• Then...

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