Notes

February 18th
periods 2,5,6 (period 1 Feb. 19th)

Terms:
__Frame story__ - story within a story __Parallel story__ - similar stories that run parallel but don't really intersect expect that they share some characters both girls are missing mothers __Flashback__ - a scene inserted into a story showing events that occurred in the past. __Foreshadowing__ - cluse that hing at later events in the story. __Coming-of-Age story__ - character experiences conflicts that force them to make decisions that lead to their maturity. __First person point of view__ - narrator is a character in the story and is referred to as "I" - reader sees through narrator's eyes

General Notes:
Main character - Salamanca Tree Hiddle Written by Sharon Creeck Two stories happening at the same time:
 * 1) 1 Sal's story - her car trip with her grandparents to Idaho to see her mother
 * 2) 2 Phoebe's story - the lunatic and the missing mother

both stories have a missing mother involved at this point

__Characters:__
Sal(Salamanca Tree Hiddle- Indian name p.7)-13 years old, country girl p.1, part Indian p.7, nickname Chickabiddy p.8, Margaret - red hair p.1 Phoebe Winterbottom - round face, powerful imagination p.2 Dad - Gram and Gramps Hiddle - Dad's parents, odd, sweet, unpredictable p.6 Mom - missing

__Setting:__
Euclid, Ohio

__General Notes:__
left Bybanks, Kentucky for Ohio p.1 Sal's mother is gone - not returning p.3 "Hidden behind the wall was a brick fireplace. The reason that Phoebe's story reminds me of that plaster wall and the hidden fireplace is that beneath Phoebe's story was another one. Mine." p.3 Frame story. Story #1 - car trip to Lewiston, Idaho with her grandparents p.4 real reasons for the trip 1) Gram and Gramps to see mom, 2)Sal to see mom but afraid to, 3) dad alone with Margaret, had seen mom p.5 Sal wants the be in Idaho by her mother's birthday (superstitious) p.6 Sal prayed 1)not be in accident (afraid of cars and buses), 2)get there by mom's birthday,7days, 3) bring mom home p.7 prayed to trees - easier - always a tree around p.7 Mom wanted to call her Salamanca Sugar Maple Tree Hiddle - fav tree - too much p.8 Story #2 - Phoebe Winterbottom - her disappearing mother and the lunatic. p.9

__Idioms/Colloquialisms:__
"worth a hill of beans" p.4 "might as well try to catch a fish in the air" p.6 "if I lean on broken reeds ...get a face full of swamp mud" p.7 "spin us a yarn" p.8 - tell a story "a hog's belly full of things" p.8