Young Louis Armstrong, “Satchmo,” longs to play the horn, but his family has no money for such things.  He was inspired to learn to play the coronet by listening to a local New Orleans jazz band.  He decides to earn the money himself by doing chores, running errands, and selling items. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trophies, 2005)

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.