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Part I (Pages 1 - 55)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Spiotta, Dana. Wayward. Penguin Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2021.

• This book is written in the past tense and from the third person perspective.

• Part One is titled "Sam." Chapter 1 is one paragraph. What happened to Sam in 2017 began with the house she bought, a run-down Arts and Crafts cottage in a run-down part of Syracuse that had once been thriving.

• In Chapter 2, the house was on Highland Street.

• Sam, a middle-aged woman in her early fifties, had one daughter, Ally, and a husband named Matt.

• In 2017, Sam decided to leave her husband, and the decision solidified when she made an offer on the house on Highland Street without first mentioning anything to her husband.

• Sam loved old architecture, and she sometimes went to open houses around the city just to look...

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