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Why does the author use italic text in the poem “Reading”?
What is,
To indicate what the teacher is telling the speaker
Which phrase or sentence does the author use to convey her relationship with her sister?
What is,
I am the other Woodson (line 53)
Identify the mood:
someone who looked like me / had a story. (“stevie and me,” lines 109–110)
What is,
Hopeful
The speaker’s frequent comparisons between herself and her sister mainly emphasize —
What is,
how incapable the speaker feels
In contrast to the poem “the other woodson,” the poem “reading” shows how the speaker —
What is,
feels pride in being different from her sister
Read the sentences from the poem “writing #1.”
When I speak,/ the words come pouring out of me. The story / wakes up and walks all over the room.
Which idea do these lines express?
What is,
Telling made-up stories aloud comes easily to the speaker.
Identify the mood:
until there is nothing but pink / bits of eraser and a hole now (“writing #1,” lines 13–14)
What is
Depressing mood
Which phrase or sentence does the author use to convey her relationship with her sister?
What is,
I am the other Woodson (line 53)
In the poem “late autumn,” the speaker changes from feeling —
What is,
confident to discouraged
Read the sentence from “writing #1.”
But as I bend over my composition notebook, / only my name / comes quickly.
How does the sentence contribute to the poem “writing #1”?
What is,
It establishes the conflict.
Identify the mood:
When I speak, / the words come pouring out of me.
(“writing #1,” lines 2–3)
What is
Hopeful
What is the message of the poem “stevie and me”?
What is,
It is important for children to see people who are like them in stories.
The last three lines of the poem “when i tell my family” show that the speaker —
What is
plans to be a writer regardless of what others say
Choose the two elements that make Brown Girl Dreaming different from memoirs written in prose.
What is,
Written in verse & Structured as a series of poems
Identify the mood:
and begin searching for brilliance / at another desk.
(“the other woodson,” lines 54–55)
What is,
Depressing mood