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Part I (Pages 1 - 49)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: McBride, Amber. Me (Moth). Macmillan Publishing Group LLC, New York, 2021.

• This book is written in verse, from the first person perspective, and in a mix of past and present tenses.

• McBride includes an excerpt titled "Crossing" from The Tradition by Jericho Brown before the first section.

• This excerpt is written in the first person, where the writer expresses that he is different and is not making a crossing to cross back again - he is "set on something vast."

• Each individual section is titled and is quite brief.

• The first in Part I is "Moth Egg." In it, the narrator, Moth's Gray-Bearded grandfather, defines that a moth egg is an egg itself, a home for a caterpillar, and a boundary from the living when the caterpillar is not ready to live...

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