This autobiography takes place in the 1960’s, when girls were not allowed to play on boys’ baseball teams, so even though Tanya would rather be on the field, she agrees to be a scorekeeper for her brothers’ baseball team. She wants Mark, one of her teammates, to know that she is a good baseball player too, and despite the stereotypes and time period, Tanya shows bravery when she goes with her brothers to play baseball at Mark’s house one day and even hits one of his pitches. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt StoryTown, 2008)

This lesson was created as part of the Basal Alignment Project, during which teachers created CCSS-aligned lessons for existing literary and information texts in basal readers. All page numbers and unit/week designations found in this lesson relate to the edition of the basal reader named above. If you are using a trade book or different edition of this title, the page/unit/week references in this lesson will not match. Consult the content referenced in the body of the lesson to determine appropriate page numbers for your text.