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Brown Girl Dreaming Part 1 Vocabulary and Genres

Authored by Jasmine Guyton

English

6th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Brown Girl Dreaming Part 1 Vocabulary and Genres
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Jaquaeline Woodson's "Brown Girl Dreaming" is written as a memoir about her childhood. What is a memoir?

autobiography

fiction

diagram

chart

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

On p. 2 of Brown Girl Dreaming, Woodson says her people were "enslaved, then emacipated." What does emancipated mean?

kept in slavery

to set free

go on vacation

hungry

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

On p.3 of Brown Girl Dreaming, the text says "Malcolm X is standing on a soapbox talking about a revolution." What does soapbox mean?

a box of soap

a place to air your views publicly

a grocery store

a bench

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

On p.4, the text mentions "James Baldwin is writing about injustice..." What is injustice?

treating people fairly

kindness

unfair treatment

friendly

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

5.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What is a word that means twisting and winding?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The story of Woodson's birth was desribed as getting lost "amid other people's bad memory" on p.18. What does "amid" mean?

into the phrase

around the area

in the middle, surrounded by

underneath

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

On page 23, the text says "she watches the way the light slips through the heave pine needles, dapples everything with sweet September light." What does "dapples" mean?

light spots surrounded by dark spots

darkness surrounded by light

polka-dotted

bright and shiny

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

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