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READINGS:
//A Mason-Dixon Memory// by Clifton Davis - page 535 - __Holt Elements of Literature__ - "If we leave, we forfeit this tournament. If we stay, Dondre' can't play."

Literary Focus
Understand forms of prose - The Essay

Reading Skills:
Recognizing Text Structures Flashbacks - the narrator goes back to an earlier time to tell a story that relates to the first story he is telling.

Vocabulary:
predominantly - adv.: mainly. //The story is predominantly about the meaning of friendship//.

forfeit - v.: lose the right to compete. //Dondre's teammates would forfeit the tournament.//

resolve - v: decide. //In tough situations, people can resolve to do the right thing.//

ominous - adj." threatening. //The look on the chaperone's face was ominous.//

erupted - v.: burst forth. //Applause erupted from the audience after Dondre's speech.//

About the writer: CLIFTON DAVIS
- a man of many talents (1946 - ). He was better known for writing tunes. He wrote the song "Never Can Say Goodbye," which sold two million records. He is also an actor and received a Tony nomination for his performance in Two Gentlemen of Verona. He is a Seventh-Day Adventist Church minister.