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Jacqueline WoodsonA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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Short Answer
1. Brown Girl Dreaming is a hybrid form, using aspects of both poetry and memoir. What are the key elements of each of these genres, and how do you expect them to work in this book?
Teaching Suggestion: As a hybrid work, Woodson’s memoir provides fertile ground to discuss how genre and form help inform the thematic meaning of a text. Getting students to think about what imperatives each genre has will prepare them to engage with the work, particularly as it uses poetry to present discrete memories.
2. Woodson was born in 1963, which means her childhood aligned closely with the civil rights era. What do you know about the struggle for equality in the American South (and throughout America) in the 1960s? What do you know about figures like Martin Luther King, Jr.
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