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Chapter 1

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Kingsolver, Barbara. Unsheltered. HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. First Edition.

• Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Unsheltered follows two storylines set in the same home in historic Vineland, New Jersey.

• The first storyline is introduced in Chapter1, which takes place in approximately 2016 during the presidential primaries and focuses on protagonist Willa Knox.

• The narrative is related from the perspective of a third-person narrator with limited focus on Willa.

• Willa, her husband Iano, Iano’s father Nick, and their adult daughter Tig have just moved to a home on Plum Street in Vineland, which Willa has inherited.

• Willa learns from a contractor who has been hired to assess the house that it is in such bad condition, it would be financially wiser to tear it down than to attempt to repair it.

• The news distresses Willa because she had...

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