1. My Brother Martin
A sister remembers

2. Genre
Biography: A story about the life of a real person written by someone else.

3. Strategy
Evaluate
-Readers evaluate a text by drawing conclusions about the authors purpose.

4. Skill Author’s Purpose:
-An author’s purpose may be to entertain, persuade, or inform. A good reader evaluates the author’s purpose to make sound judgments.

5. unsuspecting (verb)
trusting

6. unfair (adj)
not fair or just

7. ancestors (noun)
people in the past from whom one comes.

8. injustice (adj)
unfairness

9. avoided (verb)
stayed away from

10. segregation (noun)
the practice of setting one racial group apart from another

11. numerous (adj)
forming a large number; many

12. Story Words Waning: becoming smaller or fewer in numbers
Streetcar: a vehicle that holds many passengers and runs on rails through city streets
Indignity: something that insults a person’s self-respect
Bigotry: hatred or intolerance toward and entire group or people; prejudice

13. Grammar
Verb Tenses
-The tense of a verb tells you when in time an action is happening.

14. Present-tense
A present-tense verb shows that the action is happening now or is happening over and over: Thomas looks at the gray sky.

15. Past-Tense
A past-tense verb shows action that has already happened.

16. Future-tense
A verb in the future tense shows action that will happen.