Figurative Language in Brown Girl Dreaming
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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 storyboard that illustrates the use of personification or other figurative language in the memoir Brown Girl Dreaming!
Storyboard Text
- Slide: 1
- You are wrong!
- Page 64: The South doesn't agree with my brother. The author is saying that her brother is not happy in the South.
- Slide: 2
- Page 267: We board the bus just when the sun is kissing the sky. The author is saying that it is sunrise.
- Slide: 3
- Page 32:A front porch swing thirsty for oil. The author is trying to say the it was an old swing and it was creaking when it moved.