Brown Girl Dreaming

What major life event has just happened in Woodsen's life?

• Her father died

• Her family moved from Greenville, SC to Brooklyn, NY

• She lost her dog

• She made a bad grade on a test

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the main thing we learn about Odella?

• She is bossy

• She doesn't like Woodsen

• She is gifted

• She doesn't like her name

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

How does Uncle Robert feel about Woodsen's stories?

• He likes her stories and wants her to keep telling them

• He tells her to stop

• He feels sorry for her

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

How is Brown Girl Dreaming different from other memoirs?

• It is too long

• Every line rhymes

• This memoir doesn't rhyme

• It is hard to understand

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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

In "brooklyn rain" how does Woodson feel about having to stay inside? What line from the text supports that feeling?

• She's bored. Line

• She loves staying inside. Line

• She is miserable. Line

• She is tired because she has stories in her head

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Woodson's mother believes that her daughter's stories sound like _____________

• real life

• lies

• she is a good story teller

• she misses her dad

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is the story's point of view? How do you know?

• third person because there is more than one person in the story

• the author is unsure of her point of view

• the story is written in first person because the author uses the I when writing about herself

• the story is written by the sister in second person

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is prose? Is this story written in prose? How do you know?

• written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. No, it is written in verse but doesn't rhyme

• how a character poses in the poem. Yes, because Woodsen sits at the window watching

• a poem with rhyming. No because it doesn't rhyme

• a short story with spoken language. Yes, because it is a short story

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

Define feathery:

• fluff

• ticklish

• light and airy, like the touch of a feather

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Define humming:

• singing with a partner

• singing quietly

• singing aloud

• singing with closed lips and without words

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4