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Part 1 (Chapters 1 - 4)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Bergner, Daniel. Sing For Your Life. Little, Brown, 2016.

• This biography is written in the third-person past tense, from the perspective of writer Daniel Bergner.

• In Chapter 1, Ryan Speedo Green walked across the Lincoln Center Plaza in New York City, home to the Metropolitan Opera House.

• It was early spring of 2011 and Ryan was competing in the Met's contest for young opera singers between the ages of 20 and 30.

• Ryan listened to his fellow competitors backstage at the Met and considered how different he was from them.

• Some of his competitors had started singing lessons very young and came from money.

• Ryan grew up in southeastern Virginia in a run-down house with bullet holes; a trailer park; and low-income housing.

• Ryan was also black, and there was only one other black competitor among the...

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