Brown Girl Dreaming- Check Your Understanding

The poems reveal that as a child the author struggled with . . .

• listening to her mother

• going on family outings

• playing and practicing sports

• reading and writing

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

The book Stevie is important to the author because . . .

• it has people of color in it

• it is the first library book she checks out

• it has a character in it who is a writer

• it is the first book she can read

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which phrase best fits the author’s description of her older sister?

• Helpful and kind

• Competitive and ambitious

• Protective and watchful

• Intelligent and studious

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

Which of the following TWO lines from the text are examples of figurative language?

• "Each

  teacher smiles when they call my name."

• "The story

  wakes up and walks all over the room."

• "Words from the books curl around each other"

• "You look so much like her and she is SO brilliant!"

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Brown Girl Dreaming is what type of writing?

• A memoir written in poetry

• An argumentative essay

• An informative narration

• A biography

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What is a memoir?

• a story that has no real events

• an essay

• a memory of important events told by the author about his or her own life

• a fictional story that centered around an actual historical event

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10