Children's Literature-Poetry
Title: "Brown Girl Dreaming"
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Puffin Books
Illustrations: Front cover only, except for family tree at the beginning of the book
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 368
Genre: Poetry
In this moving memoir written in free verse, author Jacqueline Woodson shares with the reader what life was like as an African American girl growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. This was an emotional time for our country it's important to see things from a different perspective than what we may be used to. Woodson shares moving stories of her childhood and her talent for writing is evident in the pages of her book. At the beginning of the book, the author has included her family tree. You can also find her family photographs at the end.
Classroom connection- This text would be great to use with 5th or 6th grade. You could use it while studying the Civil Rights Movement and students could take a look into this author's life and others that lived in this time. For a writing activity, students could find someone in their community that would be willing to share their memories of this time period and conduct an interview.
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