Woodson, J. (2014). Brown Girl Dreaming. NY: Nancy Paulsen Books
Brown Girl
Dreaming
tells about the life of Jacqueline Woodson who was born in 1963, right in the
middle of the Civil Rights strife and is stuck between two worlds. She was born
in Ohio and was raised in South Carolina and New York and never really feels at
home in either place. So she tells her story of what it was like to grow up an
African American girl during the 1960s and 1970s. The poems are full of emotion
and give us a look into Jacqueline heart and soul as see struggles to find
herself. She is not a good reader or writer, but she loves to write her
stories. When she shares her stories with her teacher, her teacher tells her
that she is a writer.
This
is a wonderful autobiography that brings the Civil Rights marches and that time
in history real. I liked the fact that it was told through Jacqueline’s poetry.
It brings poetry into reading in a different way than students are used to. I
think that Brown Girl Dreaming would
be good for students who says they do not like poetry.
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