Brown Girl Dreaming Part 1 Vocabulary and Genres
Authored by Jasmine Guyton
English
6th - 8th Grade
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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.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
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.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RI.6.4
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.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
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.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.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.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
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