Brown Girl Dreaming Part 2 Vocabulary and Point of View

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means the normal time between successive groups?

My southern grandfather missed slavery by one _______________. (p.48)

• bittersweet

• generation

• fallow

• segregated

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means compliant and obedient to authority? (p.69)

Saying "Ma'am" was too painful a memory for my mother of the recent southern _____________ days.

• bittersweet

• generation

• fallow

• subservient

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means

cause to be interested or curious?

Jacqueline Woodson is ______________by learning to read and write from an early age.

• bittersweet

• intrigued

• fallow

• segregated

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means

lacking in strength, firmness, or resilience?

Protesters in the 1960's South aren't allowed to sit in certain restaurants and get carried out, their bodies __________________ their faces calm. (p.72)

• bittersweet

• intrigued

• limp

• segregated

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means

unhurried and with care and dignity? (p.76)

They learn how to change the South without violence, how to walk slowly but with ___________steps.

• bittersweet

• intrigued

• limp

• deliberate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means

be driven or carried along, as by the air? (p.84)

My sister's voice ______ over the kitchen, settles like a hand on my shoulder and holds me there.

• bittersweet

• intrigued

• wafts

• deliberate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means

separated or isolated from others or a main group? (p.90)

Many schools in the 1960's South were ______________, preventing black Americans from attending schools nearest to their homes and not receiving equal opportunities for education.

• segregated

• intrigued

• wafts

• deliberate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means

left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season? (p.101)

The fields lay ___________, crops picked clean.

• fallow

• intrigued

• wafts

• deliberate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means devout or heartfelt? (p.120)

My words ___________as anything:
"Good morning, I'm Sister Jacqueline and I'm here to bring you some good news today."

• fallow

• intrigued

• earnest

• deliberate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which vocabulary word best fits this sentence and means

having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness? (p.95)

If I ask to taste Mom's coffee, she will hold it to my lips, let me taste the __________flavor of it.

• segregated

• intrigued

• bittersweet

• deliberate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4