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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...
This section contains 5,070 words (approx. 17 pages at 300 words per page) |
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