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Part I (Pages 1 - 46)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: LaCour, Nina. We Are Okay. Riverhead Books, New York, 2017.

• This book was written from the first person perspective and in a mix of the present and the past tenses.

• In Chapter One, Marin was a college freshman who had recently moved across the country from California to New York.

• She was spending Christmas alone in her college dorm after a recent bereavement.

• Her only family in the world, her grandfather, Gramps, had died over the summer.

• Marin's roommate Hannah was concerned about leaving her and asked her to come to visit her in New York City over the break.

• Switching into the present tense, Mabel, Marin's former best friend, would arrive soon and stay for three days.

• Marin remembers the sound of Gramps singing and reads a few essays from a...

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