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New School - Ruined Weekend

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Towers Falling. 2016. Little, Brown and Company, E-book.

• An epigraph consists of an excerpt from Woody Guthrie’s song entitled “This Land is Your Land.”

• New School begins on page 1.

• Deja is a ten-year-old girl living in New York City.

• She is currently living in a shelter for homeless families with her mother Ma, her father Pop, her little brother Ray, and her little sister Leda.

• All five members of the family live together in one room.

• Thinking about her little brother Ray, Deja states,"He sleeps through anything. I never do. Even when we weren't living in one room, I heard Pop's nightmare groans" (1).

• It is Deja’s responsibility to get her little brother and sister Ray and Leda ready for daycare each day.

• Deja’s father...

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