At the End of Words: A Daughter's Memoir
Publication Information
Author:  Stone, Miriam	Illustrator:
Title:  At the End of Words: A Daughter's Memoir	Date:  2003
Publisher:  Candlewick	City:  Boston
ISBN, paperback:  0763618543	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:   Yes
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General Information:
Book Type(s):    memoirs/reminiscences, poetry
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Summary:
What happens "at the end of words"? The author faced this difficult question as a teenager. Through alternating narration and poetry, she shares her anger, sorrow, confusion, and healing after her mother's death from breast cancer.
Teaching Ideas:
Students may want to keep notes about the emotions in the prose passages vs. those in the poems. They may also want to track the narrator's feelings as she deals with her mother's illness. Perhaps teachers will want to introduce nonfiction material about stages of grief. The book comes full circle, with time passing and healing beginning, so students may want to speculate on the narrator's future. The book can be used to prompt journal or diary writing.
Teaching Strategies:
Book Conversations    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/book_conversations.pdf
Helping Students in the Writing Process    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf
Types of Journals    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/types_of_journals.pdf
Venn Diagrams    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf
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Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > death Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > grief Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > loss Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > love Family > mothers Family Science > medicine > diseases Literature and Language > poetry

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