Woodson, J. (2014). Brown girl dreaming. New York, NY: Nancy Paulsen Books.
In Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming we are shown the events that helped create the woman this great author came to be. It is an autobiographical text written in different poetic forms; Woodson's autobiography starts off with a family tree, and is divided into 5 sections: her birth, her life in South Carolina, her life in New York City, what happened to her family, and finally what inspired her to dream big! After the sections her book includes an author's note, her thanks to individuals, and even some of her family photos.
I enjoyed reading her autobiography because it was rich in detail and you could practically smell the summer of 1963 come to life. I believe teachers would be able to use her autobiography to teach poetry, non-fiction texts, point-of-view, figurative language, and interweave American History in. The students would be able to use the information given in this book to help them understand the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and teachers would be able to introduce other American poets such as Langston Hughes into the mix.
I rate this book a 5 out of 5 stars!
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