U1ST1 Brown Girl Dreaming

Where does the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming take place?

• Uncle Robert's house

• Halsey Park

• Greenville, South Carolina

• New York City

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Which sentence best shows the meaning of shushes?

• Tom cheers wildly at the basketball game.

• Jackson wades through the muddy river.

• Grandma softly tells the children not to make any noise.

• Sandy rolls the cookie dough into small spheres.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Your little brother is humming at the dinner table. Which of your senses tells you this?

(a)  

• sight

• taste

• touch

• hearing

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which of these sentences contains the best example of onomatopoeia?

• The dice clattered onto the tabletop.

• We slid across the floor in our socks.

• Here is a book of nursery rhymes.

• It's raining cats and dogs outside.

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of text does a writer tell a true story from a specific period in his or her own life?

(a)  

• mood

• genre

• point of view

• memoir

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Which sentence best describes Woodson?

• She feels left out.
• She dislikes her siblings.
• She has a lively imagination.
• She is the best singer in the family.

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CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

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

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Read these lines "believing," in Brown Girl Dreaming.

But my mother accuses me of lying.

If you lie, she says, one day you'll steal.

I won't steal.

What does the author use most clearly in these lines from her memoir, and why?

• She uses line breaks to show point of view.

• She uses strong verbs to move the plot forward.

• She uses dialogue or conversation to show that two characters disagree.

• She uses vivid words to create images in the reader's mind.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Which quotation from Brown Girl Dreaming best illustrates first-person point of view?

• ...No slip and slide through grass.

• Uncle Robert has moved to New York City!

• I went up a hill yesterday, I say.

• Sometimes, that's the way things happen.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

In the excerpt from Brown Girl Dreaming, what is Woodson always doing?

• winning awards

• getting in trouble

• making things up

• trying to sneak out

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10