Can someone explain this homework please?

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Dd is in yr 5, top set, she has ASD. Her literacy teacher isn't her class teacher and as yet I haven't been able to track her down for an explanation. Dd will look for her but most likely won't have remembered the explanation by the time she gets home anyway.
So a two part homework first part looks at conjunctions and choosing the best ones for various sentences. Straightforward and easily done.
This is the instruction on the reverse "Ask a family member to tell you a memory from their childhood, write it from your view using flashbacks and the here and now."
So does that mean one event written in first person,written first in past tense and then written again in present tense or does it mean one event written in first person incorporating both past and present tense? Or does it mean something completely different?
They have been looking at texts "The Secret Garden" "Iron Man" and "A little Princess" if that gives you a clue although of course they may be total red herrings.

Sounds like a first person account including historical passages which are written in the present tense to me.

I think it means something like
Gran and I are sitting at the table eating hob nobs "These are lovely" she says "I would have eaten coal for one of these when I was a girl, mind you it did almost come to that once". "Tell me" I ask. "It was my birthday....f" Gran suddenly stops speaking "Go on" I say before noticing the tears in her eyes

ooh do go on drwitch that sounds intriguing....!!

BTW OP - I would have interpreted it as drwitch has.

Doesn't it depend on what the "flashbacks" "and the here and now" are meant to mean?

That sounds right to me, now I just need dd to agree on a memory that she doesn't consider boring or embarrassing and then we'll be sorted.
Thank you