Day 3

Brown Girl Dreaming Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

  1. 1

    What does it mean to have more than one home? What might be easy or difficult about it? Use Jackie's experiences in this section of the story to support your answers.

    Having more than one home means there's more of a chance you could feel at home somewhere, but it makes the word itself confusing: it's harder to feel like you're anchored or live a steady life. Jackie and her siblings can't quite decide where they belong, in New York, in South Carolina; they love both and struggle in both. It's important to them to have people they love in more than one place, but it also means that they're always missing someone.

  2. 2

    How do you know from these poems that Jackie is interested...

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