Brown Girl Dreaming Part III

Brown Girl Dreaming

Part III

Multiple Select

Look at the picture. Click the words that tell what the picture is AND the meaning.

• sticking out

• chemistry

• protruding

• Johnny Pump

Multiple Select

Look at the picture. Click the words that tell what the picture is AND the meaning.

• sticking out

• nickname for fire hydrants in New York that have a flip lid to let water out

• protruding

• Johnny Pump

Multiple Select

Look at the picture. Click the words that tell what the picture is AND the meaning.

• buses

• chemistry

• science involving elements, atoms, and molecules

• protruding

Multiple Select

Look at the picture. Click the words that tell what the picture is AND the meaning.

• galaxy

• a group of stars, gases, and other elements drawn together by gravity

• science involving elements, atoms, and molecules

• Port Authority

Multiple Select

Look at the picture. Click the words that tell what the picture is AND the meaning.

• galaxy

• transportation agency in charge of buses, subways, etc.

• science involving elements, atoms, and molecules

• Port Authority

Multiple Select

Look at the picture. Click the words that tell what the picture is AND the meaning.

• goggled

• transportation agency in charge of buses, subways, etc.

• science involving elements, atoms, and molecules

• looked at with amazement

Open Ended

Choose any one of the words. Use it in your own sentence.

Johnny Pump

goggled

Port Authority

chemistry

protruding

galaxy

Open Ended

What is Jacqueline's first impression of New York?

Multiple Choice

What made New York feel like home?

• visitors from back home

• collards

• cornbread

• music

Multiple Choice

Jacqueline writes,

"And the people came from Greenville

brought people from Spartansburg

and Charleston

and all of them talked like our grandparents talked

and ate what we ate

so they were red dirt and pine trees

they were fireflies in jelly jars

and lemon-chiffon ice cream cones..."

What type of figurative language is she using here?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

Open Ended

What does the author mean when she says that, "...the people wear doubt as thick as a cape until we smile and the cape falls."?

Open Ended

Describe Aunt Kay.

Open Ended

How can you tell that Aunt Kay have an effect on the lives of the people around her?

Multiple Choice

What object changed Jacqueline's life?

• a paintbrush

• a composition book

• bicycle

• porch swing

Multiple Choice

What is different for Jacqueline and her family living in New York than it was in Greenville with her grandparents?

• Family is around.

• They don't have as much food in New York as they did in Greenville.

• Jacqueline lives with her siblings like she did before.

Open Ended

Tell another similarity or difference for Jacqueline and her family living in New York compared to them living in South Carolina?

Multiple Choice

How does Jacqueline feel about going to school?

• Jacqueline is terrified about going to first grade.

• Jacqueline is in love with everything about it.

• Jacqueline is bored at school.

• Jacqueline cannot wait to leave school at the end of the day.

Open Ended

How does Jacqueline feel about being a Jehovah's Witness?

Open Ended

How do you relate to what Jacqueline describes here with her siblings?

Are you an older sibling who doesn't always want to play with a younger sibling?

Are you a younger sibling who gets left out?

Are you an only child?

Share your thoughts and feelings.

Open Ended

Why do you think Jacqueline enjoys making up stories?

Multiple Choice

Why did Grandma sound like, "the south (was) so heavy in her mouth"?

• She had a strong accent.

• Jacqueline formed mental pictures when she spoke?

• She had chewing gum in her mouth.

• She was crying.

Open Ended

Make an inference. Why do you think Roman is sick?

Open Ended

Why did Jacqueline and her siblings have a hard time at Mrs. Hughes's Nursery and Day School?

Open Ended

Why was this section called "Home Then Home Again"?