Brown Girl Dreaming Part 1 Vocabulary and Genres

Jaquaeline Woodson's "Brown Girl Dreaming" is written as a memoir about her childhood. What is a memoir?

• autobiography

• fiction

• diagram

• chart

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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

On p. 2 of Brown Girl Dreaming, Woodson says her people were "enslaved, then emacipated." What does emancipated mean?

• kept in slavery

• to set free

• go on vacation

• hungry

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

On p.3 of Brown Girl Dreaming, the text says "Malcolm X is standing on a soapbox talking about a revolution." What does soapbox mean?

• a box of soap

• a place to air your views publicly

• a grocery store

• a bench

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

On p.4, the text mentions "James Baldwin is writing about injustice..." What is injustice?

• treating people fairly

• kindness

• unfair treatment

• friendly

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a word that means twisting and winding?

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The story of Woodson's birth was desribed as getting lost "amid other people's bad memory" on p.18. What does "amid" mean?

• into the phrase

• around the area

• in the middle, surrounded by

• underneath

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

On page 23, the text says "she watches the way the light slips through the heave pine needles, dapples everything with sweet September light." What does "dapples" mean?

• light spots surrounded by dark spots

• darkness surrounded by light

• polka-dotted

• bright and shiny

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a genre?

• catergories for literature

• something you inherit from your family

• a game

• something from the grocery store

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What 2 genres is Brown Girl Dreaming?

• poetry

• autobiography

• fantasy

• mystery

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What genre is a true story about a real person written by another person?

• biography

• fantasy

• autobiography

• mystery

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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