Brown Girl Dreaming Reading Check Part 4

What do Jackie and Maria do with their dinners sometimes?

• They trade with each other, so they can enjoy the other mother’s good cooking.

• They refuse to eat it because their moms are such bad cooks.

• They have a food fight with each other.

• They take some to share with homeless people in NY.

What happens when Jackie tries to write down her stories?

• She is praised by her mother as being brilliant.

• She struggles getting anything down on the page, and she makes holes in the page with her eraser.

• They come easily to her, and her teacher tells her that she’s smarter than her older sister, Odella.

• Her mother accuses her of lying again, because she feels like storytelling is nothing but lying.

What happens at the beginning of every school year for Jackie?

• Jackie’s mother has to fight Jackie to go to school because she hates it so much.

• Jackie excels at reading, writing, and math, just like her older sister, Odella did.

• Jackie’s teacher gets excited to have another Woodson because Jackie’s sister, Odella, was so smart.

• Jackie’s teacher worries about having another Woodson because Jackie’s older sister, Odella, was a troublemaker.

What does Jackie do to help her learn how to read?

• She practices sounding out the words carefully one at a time.

• She takes out hard books at the library with her family, so she can get used to reading harder words. She doesn’t do anything.

• She gets frustrated and tells her mother that she wants to quit school.

• She memorizes the words, so when she starts having trouble, memory takes over.

What talent do Jacqueline and her family discover that her brother Hope has?

• Hope is a talented musician; he plays the saxophone.

• Hope is a talented artist; he mostly paints in watercolors.

• Hope is a talented singer.

• Hope performed magic and he is considered to be a talented magician.

What special thing does Daddy tell Jacqueline?

• “You will become a famous writer someday.”

• “You look just like your mother. You are beautiful.”

• “You are my favorite.”

• “I want you to take over my garden.”

Why is Greenville so different the summer that Jacqueline and her siblings return?

• Daddy is very sick; he’s so tired that he doesn’t want to eat and rarely gets out of bed.

• There are new neighbors next door, which Daddy and Grandma do not get along with.

• Grandma doesn’t spoil them as much as she used to when they were younger.

• A distant relative has moved in and there is a lot less room in the house now.

Who calls from Riker’s Island?

• Jackie’s mother

• Jackie’s Uncle Robert

• Jackie’s Grandmother

• Maria

When does Jackie have that moment where she finally thinks she’s going to be a writer?

• When she publishes her first book.

• When she spray paints her tag on a wall.

• When she writes down the lyrics to her Mountain Song.

• She feels like she’ll never be a writer.

Why does Jackie return to Greenville, South Carolina?

• Her grandfather is dying.

• Her mother sends her there for a vacation.

• Her grandparents need help with their garden.

• Her family is moving back to Greenville.