Lines 3–13: Based on the author’s description of her location moments before, ask students to infer why Soueif is traveling in a boat.

Soueif is traveling in a boat this time because she had been to Egypt before but did most of the traveling by land.

Explanation:

Soueif wanting to see a different view of Egypt from the Nile (which is the only river that runs through Egypt) rents a boat that would travel through the river (up or down) so that the author could visit notable places such as the Oxyrhynchus and Abydos.

According to her, traveling by land was to restrict one's self to much of Egypt's history, and lots of sand from the desert. The kind of life she wanted to experience was to be found by the Nile.

Cheers

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)