Brown Girl Dreaming Text Evidence
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
By Lauren Ayube
Brown Girl Dreaming is a memoir of Jacqueline Woodson’s life growing up between the North and the South during a time of racial segregation and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. A beautiful story that’s written in a unique style, Brown Girl Dreaming is perfect as a read aloud, small group text, or to use in a poetry unit.
Storyboard Description
Create a spider map that illustrates something from Brown Girl Dreaming, using evidence from the text.
Storyboard Text
- My children have the freedom to choose!
- Under my roof, you follow my rules.
- Who wants a cupcake?!
- Happy Birthday, Mary!
- I need to wait in the hall.
- What I BelieveI believe in God and evolution.I believe in the Bible and the Qur'an.I believe in Christmas and the New World.I believe that there is good in each of usno matter who we are or what we believe in.I believe in the words of my grandfather.I believe in the city and the Souththe past and the present.I believe in Black people and White people coming together.I believe in nonviolence and "Power to the People".I believe in my little brother's pale skin and my own dark skin.I believe in my sister's brilliance and the too-easy books I love to read.I believe in my mother on a bus and Black people refusing to ride.I believe in good friends and good food.I believe in johnny pumps and jump ropes, Malcom and Martin, Buckeyes and Birmingham,writing and listening, bad words and good words-I believe in Brooklyn!I believe in one day and someday and thisperfect moment called Now.
- Because being a Jehovah's Witness was not a choice, she struggled with committing herself to it. For example, one belief is that those who do not attend church will not go to heaven; Jacqueline does not believe this, as her grandfather is a wonderful man who does not attend.
- Being a Jehovah's Witness means not being able to celebrate holidays or birthdays. This made Jacqueline feel very left out as a child. She recalls having to leave the classroom when classmates brought in birthday cupcakes.
- Jacqueline is raised as a Jehovah's Witness. What effect does religion have on her life?
- After learning about Maria's Christianity, observing her mother's abstract view of spirituality, and being exposed to Islam by her uncle Robert, Jacqueline forms a set of beliefs that encompass aspects of all different religions, not just one in particular.
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