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Memoirs and their authors

and the authors’ craft

+Annotations!

Please have your annotated copy of Going Where

I’m Coming From out during our writing time so that I can come by and talk to

you about your annotations.

+Please mark at least two examples of each of the eight parts of speech

on your copy of this passage.

My brother and I got food

poisoning after we ate bad spaghetti in

Egypt. A doctor came, and said

seriously, “Stay away from other

people.” We thought we had an exotic

disease. Goodness, my brother and I

complained a lot. We stayed in the hotel

room for a week, but the doctor visited

daily. I told him, “Thank you.” Wow, we

were sick forever.

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+ Mentor text:Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Thank You in Arabic”

Please select three nouns and three verbs from

Nye’s memoir excerpt.

+ Mentor text:Graham Salisbury’s

“Ice”

Please select three nouns and three

adjectives from Salisbury’s

memoir excerpt.