Part I (Pages 1 - 69)
• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Abbott, Megan. The Turnout. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2021.
• This book is presented in the past tense and from the third person perspective.
• In Chapter 1, Charlie, Dara and Marie were all running the Durant School of Dance, which had been started by Dara's and Marie's mother.
• Charlie had lived with the Durant family from the time he was a young teenager.
• He had been a promising student and his mother had moved abroad, prompting Mrs. Durant to offer to take Charlie in as part of her own family.
• Mrs. Durant was totally consumed by dance, and she homeschooled Dara and Marie, where they mostly focused on dancing.
• Dara and Marie looked a lot alike, with long dancers' bodies, and Dara was the more practical, hardened sister.
• Dara taught the older...
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