Act 1
What historical event is happening during Woodson's early childhood?
The Civil Rights Movement
What activity does Jackei discover she loves and excels at?
Writing
Why does Roman become sick?
He eats paint and gets lead poisoning.
How does Woodson structgure most of the poems in the book?
Free verse
Why did the bubble-gum cigarettes game come to an end?
Odella tells thewm that that was how daddy died and that makes the game not fun anymore.
Where was Jackie born?
Which of Woodson's family members is a Jehovah's Witness?
Her grandmother
Which city does The Woodson family move to from the South?
New York City
What family members deaths impact Jackie's life.
Aunt Kay, Daddy Gunnar, Uncle Odell
What does Jackie's teacher tell her about her writing?
She has a gift
In which decade was Jacqueline Woodson born?
1960s.
What does Jackie strugglie with in school?
Reading
WHy does New York City seem hard to love?
It seems gray, cold, treeless, and there are no grandparents to love here
Why does Jacqueline tell the teacher she wants to be called Jackie?
She struggles to write Jacqueline in cursive, the letter q is hard for her.
What is one of the main messages of the book?
Everyone has a story to tell
What literary genre is "Brown Girl Dreaming"?
Memior in verse
Where do Daddy Gunnar and Grandma work?
Printing press, cleaning, teaching
What are some ways Jackie's life is different because she is a Jehova's Witness?
She is not allowed to say the Pledge of Allegiance, celebrate birthdays, Halloween, or Christmas. They also do not vote, fight, curse, or go to war.
What is Jacqueline's new nickname and how does she earn it?
Tomboy, she earns it becuase she runs around all day playing games, running races, and walking like a "boy".
How is the revolution like a merry-go-round?
History is always being made somewhere and each life on earth is part of history for a short time and then the ride stops.
How do Black people get treated in Greenville?
They are followed in stores, they sit at back of bus, they are discriminated against, whites/blacks only sotres, can't sit at counters
What day school do they attend? What happens there?
Miss Hudges Day School, they get made fun of
"Our feet are beginning to belong in two different worlds - Greenville and New York. We don't know how to come home and leave home behind us." (Page 195)
What does this mean?
Jackie and her siblings consider Greenville thier home and they consider New York their home. It is difficult for them to be moving often and be unstable.
What is the difference between a wide road and a narrow road?
Why do Momma and Uncle Robert differ in their opinions of the stories Jackie tells.
Momma thinks she is lying. Robert thinks she is a good story teller.