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• In Chapter 3, The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade, find and read the "chunk" about the recess foot race.

• Read "Casey at the Bat"

• Use the poem as a model.  Can you rewrite the story of the recess foot race?

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updated 03/19/2007