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How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium

- The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Oh, Ellen (Ed.). Flying Lessons and Other Stories. Crown, 2017.

-The story begins at the beginning of summer, with the narrator reflecting on the past school year. He has done well, 2 As and 4 Bs, but his mind is really on basketball because "it's a way out" (2).

-The narrator has been practicing every spare minute -- after school, on weekends, whenever he can find the time, and his game has improved.

-Before he joins the high school team the next year, however, he wants to spend his summer challenging himself so that he can become even better.

-He discovers a downtown gym called Muni's where the best amateurs play and decides to spend every day there.

-He...

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