finish brown girl dreaming
us Brown Girl Dreaming Book to answer all the questions below:
Questions to answer and submit for homework:
What song does the title of Part IV come from?
How does “how to listen #5” p. 210 relate to Langston Hughes’ poem that is the epigraph of the memoir?
How is “lessons” p. 214 about gender roles?
Connect “writing #1” 217 with “writing #2” p. 221: How are these poems related?
What does the word “infinity” mean in “birch tree poem” p. 223? “reading” p. 226 and “the selfish giant” p. 246 are also about reading: how is memory related to reading for Jackie?
How does setting relate to the meaning of “how to listen #6”?
“what everybody knows now” p. 237 How does this poem relate to the writer that Jackie becomes?
“learning from langston” 245: how does this poem relate to the writer that Jackie becomes?
“music” p. 262–how does this poem relate to Jackie becoming a writer?
“dannemora” p. 270: How does this poem relate to Jackie becoming a writer?
“the revolution” p. 308: How does Jackie relate the word “revolution” to her writing?
“how to listen #10” p. 310 what is the meaning of this poem? What is the connection between thinking, knowing, writing, and listening?
“every wish, one dream” p. 313: What does Jackie say contributes to her becoming a writer?