From Brown Girl Dreaming My Perspectives

Brown Girl Dreaming

Part IV

Multiple Choice

What was Jacqueline hoping for when they returned home?

• a happy ending, like in the stories Odella reads to her

• to be back in Greenville with Daddy

• to be back in her bed in her Brooklyn home

• seeing all of her friends from school again

Open Ended

Did she get the happy ending she was hoping for? Why or why not?

Open Ended

Why do you think Hope, Odella, and Jacqueline's mom makes them go inside so early?

Multiple Choice

What lesson is Jacqueline's mom trying to teach her kids?

• that it's important to stay inside all of the time

• that it's important to play outside as much as you can

• that sometimes kids need to take time to learn from their parents

• that pancakes are the best meal on a Saturday morning

Open Ended

What did Jacqueline's mom NOT learn from her own mom?

Multiple Choice

Jacqueline writes,

"The story wakes up and walks all over the room.

Sits in a chair, crosses one leg over the other, says,

let me introduce myself. Then just starts going on and on."

What type of figurative language is this an example of?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Open Ended

What is Jacqueline struggling with?

Poll

Have you ever felt the way Jacqueline felt? Like you could tell all kinds of stories, but when you try to write the words don't come?

• It happens to me all the time!

• Once in a while

• Never

Open Ended

Why does Jacqueline refer to herself as "the other Woodson"?

Open Ended

Before Jacqueline Woodson wrote Brown Girl Dreaming, she had already written several other books and won many awards and prizes for her great stories. Brown Girl Dreaming has won at least four different, famous awards. In this memoir, though, she shows the reader that writing was not always easy for her.

What were some of her challenges in school? And how did they affect her?

Poll

Are you surprised that she has become such a successful writer?

• yes

• kind of

• a little

• no

Open Ended

Why was this book so important for Jacqueline?

Let's review what we've read so far!

See how many answers your can get correct.

Multiple Select

A memoir is... (check ALL correct choices)

• nonfiction.

• fiction.

• about the feelings and thoughts of the author.

• writing about the author's life.

• completely true with no opinions.

Multiple Choice

Who is Daddy Gunnar?

• Jacqueline's father

• Jacqueline's grandfather

• Jacqueline's uncle

• Jacqueline's brother

Multiple Select

Who are Jacqueline's siblings?

(There's more than one answer)

• Odella

• Kay

• Hope

• Roman

• Robert

Multiple Choice

Who is Jacqueline's best friend?

• Kay

• Dell

• Maria

• Hope

Multiple Choice

What made Roman so sick?

• not enough food

• falling out of his crib

• falling down the stairs

• eating lead paint

Multiple Choice

How does Jacqueline learn how to read?

• by going to school with her sister

• by reading the same books over and over

• by reading with her mother

• by writing down the words from songs

Multiple Choice

What was Dell's favorite thing to do outside?

• freeze tag

• jump rope

• read

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Why was Jacqueline called Jackie?

• It is shorter.

• It is easier to say.

• Q was hard for her to write in cursive.

• She loved the nickname.

Multiple Choice

Why was Stevie such a gift for Jacqueline?

• It was a book about people who looked like her.

• She thought he was a handsome young man.

• She could read it easily.

• The book was a special gift given to her.

Multiple Choice

What is a haiku?

• a poem that rhymes

• a poem that has a 5-7-5 syllable pattern

• writing about one's own life

Open Ended

Complete this sentence:

Daddy told Jacqueline...

Multiple Choice

Why did Jacqueline mention that one butterfly was called a buckeye?

• She loves those kinds of butterflies.

• Buckeyes are very special.

• The area where her father's family is from uses buckeyes as a symbol.

Open Ended

Do you have a friend that is as close as family?

Open Ended

What do you think Jacqueline means when she says that "Even the silence has a story to tell you"?