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In It Worked for Me, one lesson Colin Powell wants to teach is
Don't worry about the future
Never do more than one job at a time
Try to own a company
Always do you very best
Powell learned his habit of working hard from
driving a truck in New York City
getting a union card when he was eighteen
his Jamaican Immigrant parents
his teammates at school
Which of these is NOT something Powell believes about work?
You just always approve of what your boss wants you to do
Every job is a learning experience
If you take the pay, earn it
Don't disappoint yourself
Name three difference between a biography and a memoir.
Answers vary
Starting at about age 14, Colin Powell worked summers and holidays at a _____ store.
Pepsi
baby furniture
clothing store
living room furniture
Jay Sickler told Colin that he should....
quit because he wasn't a very good worker.
get an education.
skip college to work at the store full time.
inherit the store.
Powell earned ______ on his first (and only) day driving a Coke truck. answer choices $20 $0 $15 $50
$15
$50
$20
$0
Powell integrated
A bottling machine crew
A furniture store
A Coke truck crew
a Pepsi factory
Memoirs are written in
1st person POV
2nd person POV
3rd person POV
Powell believes every job...
is a learning experience
should be fun
should be difficult
should be high paying
A memoir is
an autobiographical writing
written in third person
a summary
written by someone else
A biography is written by
an editor
the subject
someone other than the subject
a poet
First person point of view signal words are
I
Me
My
all of these
A memoir reflects how the writer remembers his or her life.
True
False
Biographies are written in
third person
second person
first person
Third person pronouns are
it, the
I, me, my
mine
he, she, they it, the
