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Part I (Prologue - Chapter 2)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Davis, Bridgett. The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers. Hachette, New York, 2019.

• This book is written from the first-person point of view and in a mix of the present and past tenses.

• In the Prologue, the author and narrator, Bridgett Davis, remembers being an elementary school student and hearing her mother, Fannie Davis, take people's bets over the telephone.

• In school, at first grade at Winterhalter Elementary School, Bridgett is in first grade and her teacher tells her with some disdain that she sure has a lot of shoes.

• Bridgett is made to feel that she has done something wrong. Her teacher, Miss Miller, asks her if she knows what her mother does for a living, but she lies and says she does not...

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