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Section 1: Chapter 1 ("Shipwreck and Desertion") through Chapter 3 ("Our First Landfall")

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Wyss, Johann. The Swiss Family Robinson. Townsend Press, 2006. Paperback.

• Chapter 1, "Shipwreck and Desertion," begins with a first-person narration of a ship caught in a violent storm.

• The narrator, his wife Elizabeth, and their four young sons are in their cabin; the narrator tells his children that if they die they will be reunited in heaven.

• Elizabeth reassures her children; the family prays together.

• They hear someone cry out "Land!" (2) and there is a violent impact.

• The captain calls for the lifeboats to be lowered.

• The narrator tells his children that "God helps them who help themselves" (2) and tells them to stay with their mother while he goes above to investigate.

• The crew seems to the narrator to be "ignoring us, their only passengers" (2) as they...

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