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Description

I call my mother and grandmother back home and talk about the weather, health, and forest fires.

VOCABULARY AND TERMS

Chronicles: a factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence./to record (a series of events) in a factual and detailed way.

1. Drought: a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.

2. Smokey the Bear: Smokey Bear is an American campaign and advertising icon of the U.S. Forest Service

3. Essential Outings: to go out of the house only for important things

4. to Catch up with You: If somewhere says that 'old age' is "catching up" with them, it means that they are feeling the effects of old age.

5. Grandfather's Clock: a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work.

6. 1968 Fisher Price Grandfather Clock: A Music Box Teaching Clock produced in 1962 and 1968

7. Fisher Price: An American Toy Company founded in New York in 1930

8. Hirai Ken: A Japanese R&B and Pop Singer