_Brown Girl Dreaming_ by Jacqueline Woodson

One of the things I appreciate with poetry books is that I can just reference the poem because usually I love the whole thing! :)

Civil Rights/ Community

"Miss Bell and the Marchers" p80-81

Racism

"Sterling High School, Greenville" p110-111
"Say it Loud" p304-305

Religion

"Two Gods, Two Worlds" p122-123
"What God Knows" p124
"Because We're Witnesses" p164
"Fate & Faith & Reasons" p293-294
"What I Believe" p317-318

Writing/ Education

"Composition Notebook" p154-155
"On Paper" p156
"Birch Tree Poem" p223
"Stevie and Me" p227
"When I Tell My Family" p229
"The Selfish Giant" p246-247
"Too Good" p269

Discussion

"Flag" p162-163
"Flag" would be especially interesting to discuss, considering the controversy of peaceful protests in the NFL. 

"Baby in the House" p188  Do they know what's going on here? What do they know about lead poisoning? Would be great to intro Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis as a book talk around this time.

Character

"Hope Onstage" p232-233 
"Afros" p259


A few individual beautiful lines

Maybe the truth is somewhere in between
all that I'm told
and memory.
"Believing" p176

They're just words, I whisper.
They're not trying to hurt anybody!
"Graffiti" p261

Why the cops would want someone who is trying
to change the world
in jail.
"Power to the People" p303

I want to write this down, that the revolution is like
a merry-go-round, history always being made
somewhere. And maybe for a short time,
we're part of that history. And then the ride stops
and our turn is over.
"The Revolution" p309

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