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"Ready. Set. Go." to "The Apple of Our Eye"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Johnson, Kim. This Is My America. Random House Children’s Books, 2020. Hardcover.

• The novel starts with a letter Tracy Beaumont writes to Innocence X.

• Her father, James, is in prison for a crime he did not commit, and Innocence X is a nonprofit organization that helps wrongfully convicted individuals fight legal battles.

• Tracy’s father was convicted seven years ago, and there are 275 days before his execution.

• In “Ready. Set. Go,” Tracy, her mother, and her sister Corinne are at a TV station for an interview her brother Jamal is doing with Susan Touric.

• Tracy has been told not to mention her father on the interview because Jamal wants to be known for his accomplishments, not his father’s problems.

• Angela Herron, whose father owns the...

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