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Prologue-Chapter 2

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Pride, Christine, and Piazza, Jo. We Are Not Like Them. Simon & Schuster, 2021. Hardcover.

· In the Prologue, a Black boy realizes he is shot.

· He was wearing his headphones with the music turned up loud.

· He thought he heard shouting.

· Even though he knew better, he reached for his phone to turn off the music.

· His mother had drilled him since he was old enough to walk to never make sudden movements.

· He thinks of his mother and pictures his face on the news.

· He imagines a pretty local newscaster, Riley Wilson, saying, “fourteen-year-old Justin Dwyer was shot tonight by Philadelphia police officers” (2).

· He worries about his broken phone and a brand-new shirt he may never get to wear.

· He thinks about things he may never get to do.

· He tries to stop thinking about...

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