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Part I (Chapters 1 - 5)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Reynolds, Jason and Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2020.

• This book alternates between the past and present tenses and is written mostly from a first-person point of view.

• In the Introduction, Ibram X. Kendi explains why he wanted Jason Reynolds to write a young adult version of his non-fiction book Stamped From The Beginning.

• Kendi writes that people need to understand history to understand what is happening in the present.

• Kendi writes that Reynolds is one of the most gifted writers he knows.

• Kendi writes that if it were not for the racist ideas America was partially founded on, modern tragedies would likely not have occurred, like the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.

• Young Black manes were 21 times more likely...

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