From Brown Girl Dreaming My Perspectives

In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is the main thing that readers learn about Odella, Woodson's older sister?

• Odella is bossy.

• Odella is smart.

• Odella tells lies.

• Odella runs wild.

In the poem "brooklyn rain" from Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Woodson feel about staying indoors?

• Staying indoors bores her.

• She is scared of the outdoors.

• Staying indoors makes her feel safe.

• She has more fun indoors than outdoors.

Part A Answer: Woodson is always making things up.

Part B Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming most clearly supports the answer to Part A?

• …The boy says, / I was a baby. Says, She doesn’t remember him / and points to his silent sister.

• But we are already awake, all four of us, smiling / and jumping around / my uncle: What’d you bring me?

• I say, I know a girl ten times smarter than her. She gets diamonds every time she gets a hundred on a test.

• When he takes us to the park, Uncle Robert tells us, / If you catch a dandelion puff, you can make a wish.

What point of view is Brown Girl Dreaming being told from?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

From what point of view is Brown Girl Dreaming told?

• first-person point of view

• second-person point of view

• third-person point of view

• fourth-person point of view

the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told

• point of view

• mood

• memoir

• genre

How can you tell the point of view of a memoir?

• By paying attention to the first-person pronouns being used

• By asking the author

• By Googling the point of view of each passage you read

• By paying close attention to the verbs use in the passage

In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what does Woodson's mother believe?

• Children should not speak until spoken to.

• Uncle Robert gets the children too worked up.

• If she lets her children outside, they will commit crimes.

• Her daughter's stories sound like lies.

If the story is told from the author's perspective, which point of view is being used?

• 1st person

• 3rd person

How can we tell that Woodson (the writer) is telling us something important in her writing?

• She repeats it

• She makes it rhyme

• She separates it from the other lines

• She puts parentheses ( ) around it