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Pages 3 – 36; [Darren pictured shattering…], The Spread (Adam)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lerner, Ben. The Topeka School. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019. Hardcover first edition.

• In the opening anecdote, Darren is being interrogated at a police station, and he knows that there are probably people behind the mirror.

• The detective offers to get him something to drink, but Darren says that he would just like hot water.

• The narrator says that Darren was frequently laughed at by peers in school, when he was not paying attention to class activities.

• A detective asks Darren to explain how he had thrown the cue ball at the party, and another detective tells him to start from the beginning, but the narrator says that the cue ball had been hanging in space, spinning of its own, “all his life” (4).

• In the first full chapter, titled “The...

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