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Part I (Pages 1 - 73, Chapters 1 - 8)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies. Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, 2022.

• This book was written from a range of first-person perspectives and in the past tense.

• Part I is titled "Daughters."

• Chapter 1, "Lhamo," takes place in Spring 1960 at the Border of Western Tibet and Nepal.

• Lhamo, a young girl living in Tibet at the time of the invasion by the People's Liberation Army or the "Gyami," narrates this section.

• Lhamo's mother, Ama, was an oracle in their village.

• The "Precious One," the Dalai Lama, had already fled Tibet due to the violence.

• Lhamo lived with Pala, her father, Ama, her mother, and her younger sister Tenkyi, but they were growing more uneasy by the day about the invaders and the violence befalling them.

• Many people they knew had already...

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