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Round One

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Patterson, James, and Alexander, Kwame. Becoming Muhammad Ali. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. Hardcover.

· The book begins with an epigraph that indicates that the novel is based on true events and real people, but some parts are “imagined.”

· In “Round One,” Lucius (Lucky) said that remembered everything from the night his friend, Cassius Clay, fought for a championship in the Golden Gloves boxing tournament in Chicago.

· About 20 people were packed in the livingroom of Clay’s parents place in Louisville, Kentucky, in February 1958.

· They were waiting for a phone call from Cassius to tell them the outcome.

· Cassius was still an amateur.

· He was tall, skinny, and raw.

· He was 16, like Lucky.

· Cassius had won bouts all over Kentucky.

· As family and friends waited, the scent of Mr. Clay’s (Cash) paints mined with the...

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