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James Patterson, Kwame AlexanderBecoming Muhammad Ali
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
How does Patterson and Alexander’s choice to structure the book as a series of ten rounds with an introduction before Cassius’s poems inform the way that readers understand how Cassius became who he is?
Pick two fights from Becoming Muhammad Ali and make an argument about Cassius’s strategy as a fighter within the ring.
Choose three historical allusions that Cassius makes, either to figures like Emmett Till, athletes like Jack Johnson, or musicians like Bo Diddley, and discuss how these influences inform Cassius’s development.
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