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Zoom In and Friday

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds. All American Boys. Atheneum Books, 2015. E-book.

• The epigraph of the novel presents two different quotes for the reader’s perusal.

• One quote focuses on the theme of learning from history, while the other hones in on the importance of altruism.

• The short section of text entitled Zoom In begins on page 3.

• The pages that make up Zoom In resemble the layout of a movie script.

• The scene is presented with the all-caps lines, “A boy, grainy./Facedown on the pavement./A man above him./Fists raining like stones./Howling. Lights and sirens./Blood on the street./The boy is still moving./And then he is not” (4).

• The section of text entitled Friday begins on page 5.

• Rashad provides a first-person perspective when the section begins.

• Rashad is...

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