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Chapters 1-10

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Backman, Fredrick. Us Against You. Atria Books, 2017, hardback.

• In Chapter 1, the narrator says that the town of Beartown fell because of violence.

• Beartown is a small community located in a forest.

• The town economy is not strong, and the local factory is always cutting the workforce.

• The town seems to shrink from year to year.

• The one thing the town does have is an ice rink.

• This is important, because hockey is life in Beartown.

• Life is hard, but Beartown people just grin and says that life is “supposed to be hard” (1).

• Then a boy, the star of the hockey team, raped a girl.

• The townspeople chose to believe the boy, because they wanted life to go on as usual.

• People took sides, and when the truth was revealed, the town fell apart...

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