Excerpt from Wild Plurn Jelly Tracy Wilson
Wild Plum Jelly
By: Tracy Wilson
1 In the winter of 1976, when I was only four years old, my family moved into a modest home in a growing Greenville
neighborhood. Upon a slope on one side of the house, stood a dozen tree sprigs looking rather bald and barren By springtime.
however, the little trees began growing taller and bushier by the day. Upon exploring the hutside in mid-July, I noticed hundreds
of quarter-sized, pinkish orbs dangling, daring me to pick just one of course, I did.
2Plums? I questioned. Yes, plums. She reiterated. She explained that these were not the same as the deeply colored, voluptuous
kind I had seen in the market. These were a smaller and much sourer variety>
3 Knowing that they were safe, I ate enough that one afternoon to give me a stomachache that tasted two days. As the plums
became riper and sweeter, my grandma and I picked enough to fill two enormous buckets She taught me to make jely from the
tiny fruits which we could enjoy all winter long
4 Years later, I was driving down a long, winding highway when I noticed several wild plum trees lining the hedgerow had to
pull over. I picked a heaping handful As I sat there on the side of the highway, I based in the tartness of my childhood fruit and
in the sweetness of the memory of making jelly with the greatest woman I have ever known
What is the main idea of this selection?
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moving to new places
the power of memories
drudgery in gardening
dangers of fruits

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)

its he tried to add or forgive me but he said forego

which detail from "home place retold" supports the central idea that despite physical changes, watonwan is a special place for generations of people?

great great-grandchildren retell the story of early days. .

young families worked hard to build a life.

those matches might seem surprising in modern times.

in 1881, more than 50 such families fled religious persecution. .