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Chapters 1-3

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Water Dancer. One World, 2019. Hardcover.

• In Chapter 1, Hiram knows that he could only have seen his mother on the stone bridge because that is how she would have been taken to be sold when he was a boy.

• He always avoids the bridge because it reminds him of all the family members who traveled it on their way to be sold.

• Because memory is powerful and Hiram had lost his memory of his mother, his story has to begin with the bridge.

• He sees her dancing with a pot on her head that does not fall no matter how energetically she moves.

• Hiram is driving Maynard and a prostitute back to Lockless, the plantation where they both were born.

• Maynard had gone to the races looking for respect and a...

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