Parmele from: Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir Powerpoint by Carol Harms, JSD 171, Orofino, ID

Parmele is a town in North Carolina. The author tells of trips to Parmele during her childhood. The author shares her experiences: leaving the city to make the long automobile trip along country roads, her grandfather’s scary stories, and the reluctant parting when the visit is over.

Genre: Autobiography An autobiography may have one or more of these elements. It is written by a person about her or his own life. It contains important information about a person’s life. It often includes details about how the person talks, feels, and thinks about things. It may span the person’s whole life or may tell about only an important part of the person’s life. It often focuses on the most important events of a person’s life, including their achievements and talents. Events are often told in chronological order.

collards green, leafy vegetable

patchwork quilts blankets made from scraps of material sown together

sharecropper a farmer who gives part of his or her crop as rent to the owner of the land. Sharecroppers are almost always poor. They can’t get ahead because they have to pay so much to rent the land. Sharecropper family on porch Sharecropper works the field

commence to begin These runners have just commenced (began)to run their race.

hovering staying in the same position in the air without moving forward or backward This helicopter is hovering over the desert. The hawk is hovering above a field looking for mice.

gas station rocking chair soda pop parking lot Open compound words: two words come together to name something, but there is a space between the words.

read can found like homographs: words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and origins. Some homographs even have different pronunciations.

main idea- what the author wants to reader to know in the story or paragraph details- help to explain or give more information about the main idea