Brown Girl Dreaming Flashcards

Flashcards for Brown Girl Dreaming review.

Bodega

A small, often Hispanic-owned, grocery store.

Convert

To change one's religious faith or other beliefs.

Deliberate

Done consciously and intentionally.

Emancipate

To set free from slavery, captivity, or oppression.

Injustice

Lack of fairness or justice.

Segregated

To separate or divide along racial, sexual, or religious lines.

Memoir

A literary genre where the author recounts events from their own life, typically focusing on specific themes or periods.

Free Verse

Poetry that does not adhere to a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern.

Identify the states that Jacqueline lived in at different points in her life.

Ohio,South Carolina, New york

Identify the religion that Jacqueline’s grandmother practices and the children’s involvement in it.

Jahovas witness, they go door to door trying to get people to convert

Identify some of Jacqueline’s challenges in school.

shes always compared to Odella, She cant get words down on the page, The cursive Q

tone, how author think of the book

REflective, optimistic, lyrical

what the mood, how Jackie is making u feel

Inspiring makes you think about it memories as a hildand evokes nostalgia for childhood experiences.

Be prepared to respond to a constructed response question using the RACES format with at least two specific examples to paraphrase.

Jacqueline experiences loss on multiple occasions during her childhood.  Identify ONE of those occasions and describe its effect on her.

When Rober gets in prison, When daddy Gunnar dies- she felt sad an empty because they had a special connection, Jackie reading him stories while her sibling play outside