Brown Girl Dreaming
What type of text is Brown Girl Dreaming?
Memoir in verse
Who should be mainly responsible for the welfare of children, according to The Declaration of the Rights of the Child?
Parents
In Michaela DePrince: The War Orphan Who Became a Ballerina, why did the Aunties dislike DePrince?
She had a skin condition.
What are the two categories of friends in young Myers's life?
People with whom he plays ball, and everyone else.
What gives the speaker a sense or freedom?
riding her bike to the ocean and smelling the ocean before she sees it.
In Brown Girl Dreaming, what does the main character like to do?
Use her imagiation to tell stories.
What rights do children have in reguards to education?
The right to receive an elementary education
In Michaela DePrince: The War Orphan Who Became a Ballerina, what does
DePrince credit with inspiring her to become a ballerina?
A picture in a discarded magazine
Why does young Myers keep his love of reading books a secret?
Because the older kids would tease him about his reading.
What does the speaker not want to be when she grows up?
A helpless woman like her mother.
In Brown Girl Dreaming, what is the main thing that readers learn about Odella, Woodson’s older sister?
Odella is smart
With what purpose do you think The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was written?
To inform the world of all children’s rights
What type of text is Michaela DePrince: The War Orphan Who Became a Ballerina?
Biography
What two other secrets does young Myers have?
writing poems, and dancing.
What does the speaker of I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid eventually realize about her mother?
That her mother had challenges the speaker was unaware of earlier
From what point of view is Brown Girl Dreaming told?
First-person point of view
Wich children are entitled to the rights this document sets forth?
all children
What did Michaela think all americans owned?
Point shoes
According to the selection from Bad Boy, what is Walter led to believe that boys should not do?
Read
Why does the speaker give away the fish she catches?
She doesnt like fish, she just likes fishing.
In "Uncle Robert", what do Woodson and her siblings want their uncle to teach them?
Dance steps
According to the Declaration of Rights of the Child, what should children who are physically or mentally disabled be given?
the special treatment and education required by their condition.
How did Michaela finall leave the orphanage?
She was adopted by an american woman named Elaine Deprince
What is the main idea of the selection Bad Boy by Walter Dean?
In Bad Boy Walter Dean talks about the activities that he loved as a child and the fact that he had to keep those activities a secret because of the importance placed on gender roles.
Which idea is a theme both in the selection from Bad Boy and in I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid?
Ways in which boys and girls are expected to behave