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Assignment
These questions will help you actively engage with your readings. Some questions ask you to talk about the reading specifically, and some ask you to use the reading to explore your own thoughts and experiences.
1. Each answer should be 1-2 paragraphs. Paragraphs are typically 4-6 sentences long. A little more is OK. Less is not OK.
2. Be sure to read each question carefully and answer every part of the question!
3. Use at least one quote or example from the readings to support your answers.
4. Properly format your submission like the template provided in the "General Information" section of Model.
Task
Question A. Read through the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes once quietly and once out loud. What did reciting and listening to the rhymes do for your reading experience? Which of the rhymes did you most enjoy? Why?
Question B. Read through the Ten Tongue Twisters once quietly and once out loud. Which tongue twisters did you have the most trouble with? What value do you see in these tongue twisters?
Question C. Share the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes or the Ten Tongue Twisters with a child or friend. Read them together! For this question, explain which poems you shared and who you shared them with. Describe their reaction. Describe how sharing these poems changed your own reading experience.
Question D. If you could not share with someone, use this question to explain which poems you would like to share and who you wish you could share them with. Why? What do you hope to give this person by sharing this experience?
Question E. Jacqueline Woodson begins her book-length narrative poem Brown Girl Dreaming with "February 12, 1963." What do you think is most effective about the ways this poem establishes the story of her life? How does this poem make history more real or relatable to you as a reader? (Be sure to include a quotation or two from the poem to support your answer.)
Question F. How would you describe young Jacqueline's attitude toward her father based on "A Girl Named Jack" and "Football Dreams"? (Be sure to include a quotation or two from both poems to support your answer.)
Question G. What do you think is the lesson that young Jacqueline's mother is trying to teach her in "Lessons"? Do you think the lesson is heard? (Be sure to include a quotation or two from the poem to support your answer.)
Question H. Woodson could easily have told her narrative in prose as a novel or as a collection of short stories. What does poetry allow her to achieve that prose could not? Use quotations from at least two poems to explain.
Question I. Woodson's book Brown Girl Dreaming is marketed as a "young adult" or "adolescent" book, and it won the 2014 National Book Award in the "Young People's Literature" category. Do you think the poems that you read have a special appeal to young people? Why or why not? In general, do you think there should be a special category of poetry for children? Why or why not?