Brown Girl Dreaming

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

What is the most likely reason the author tells her memoir in verse, not prose?

• To emphasize the setting and characters

• To tell about the events of her life in order

• To describe several events from her childhood

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  To reflect the way people often recall memories

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.9

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

Read the sentences from the poem “writing #1.”

When I speak,/ the words come pouring out of me.

The story / wakes up and walks all over the room.

Which idea does the personification in the sentences best express?

• Making up stories often gets the speaker into trouble

• Sharing stories with others is enjoyable to the speaker

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  Telling made-up stories aloud comes easily to the speaker

• Writing stories is part of the speaker’s family traditions

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

Read the sentence from “writing #1.”

But as I bend over my composition notebook, / only my name / comes quickly.

How does the sentence contribute to the poem “writing #1”?

• It establishes the conflict.

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  It introduces the speaker.

• It adds imagery.

• It describes the setting.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.5

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

In the poem “late autumn,” the speaker changes from feeling —

• confident to discouraged

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  fascinated to bored

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  misunderstood to beloved

• frustrated to hopeful

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.3

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

In contrast to the poem “the other woodson,” the poem “reading” shows how the speaker—

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  struggles in school

• wants to be a writer

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  feels pride in being different from her sister

• behaves and thinks like her sister

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.9

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

Read the dictionary entry.

fussing \fŭs-ing\ v 1. showing unnecessary concern about something 2. complaining about something unimportant 3. moving around or busying oneself restlessly 4. disturbing or bothering someone

Which definition best matches the meaning of fussing as it is used in line 93 of the poem “stevie and me”?

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  Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

• Definition 1

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

The last three lines of the poem “when i tell my family” show that the speaker —

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  is better at writing stories than telling them

• plans to be a writer regardless of what others say

• considers becoming a teacher or a lawyer

• wants to write stories about her school and family

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.5

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

Select which mood the following line creates...

When I speak, / the words come pouring out of me. (“writing #1,” lines 2–3)

• Hopeful mood

• Depressing mood

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

Select which mood the following line creates...

until there is nothing but pink / bits of eraser and a hole now (“writing #1,” lines 13–14)

• Hopeful mood

• Depressing mood

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

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from Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jaqueline Woodson

Select the answer that matches each quotation from the poems with the mood it conveys.

and begin searching for brilliance / at another desk. (“the other woodson,” lines 54–55

• Hopeful mood

• Depressing mood

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4