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Star tests are on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Star tests are on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Get plenty of sleep Monday and Tuesday nights, and always eat a healthy breakfast.

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Brown Girl Dreaming tells the story of my childhood, in verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, I always felt halfway home in each place. In these poems, I share what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and my growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
It also reflects the joy of finding my voice through writing stories, despite the fact that I struggled with reading as a child. My love of stories inspired and stayed with me, creating the first sparks of the writer I was to become.

Where it takes place:

Columbus, Ohio, Greenville, South Carolina and Brooklyn, New York.

Where I wrote it:

In all of those places but mostly in Brooklyn.

Why I wrote it:

I wanted to understand who my mom was before she was my mother and I wanted to understand exactly how I became a writer. So I started researching my life, asking relatives and talking to friends - and mostly, just letting myself remember.

Awards

National Book Award winner

NAACP Image Award winner (in the category of Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens)

Coretta Scott King Author Award winner

Newbery Honor winner

Sibert Honor winner

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

New York Times Bestseller (for over 20 weeks)

ALA Notable

Bank Street College of Education's Claudia Lewis Award

New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book

Kids' Indie Next List (Autumn 2014)

Kirkus Best Book

Booklist Editors' Choice

Publishers Weekly Best Book

School Library Journal Best Book

Horn Book Fanfare

Bulletin Blue Ribbon

NPR's Great Reads List

TIME magazine Top 10 YA of 2014 List

CCBC Choice

NPR's Book Concierge's 2014 Great Reads List

NPR's The Diane Rehm Show's "Readers' Reviews" on-air book club pick

Notable Books for a Global Society (NBGS) 2015 winner

BookPage Best Children's Book

Amazon Best Book (in two categories: Children's Books and Nonfiction)

Buzzfeed Best YA Books of 2014

Goodreads Choice Award nominee

Bustle.com's Top 25 Young Adult Novels of 2014 list

Audio edition: ALSC Notable Children's Recording

Audio edition: E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Winner: Middle Grade

State Lists

Indiana's Young Hoosier Book Award

Washington D.C.'s Capitol Choices Master List

Georgia's Children's Book Award Finalist

Wisconsin's Just One More Page! Master List

Virginia's Jefferson Cup Overfloweth 2015 Master List

California's ACL 2014 Distinguished Books Master list

Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan Book Award 2015-2016 (nominee)

Kentucky Bluegrass Award 2016 (nominee)

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Middle Grade/Young Adult | Brown Girl Dreaming | Jacqueline Woodson

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Brown Girl Dreaming tells the story of my childhood, in verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, I always felt halfway home in each place. In these poems, I share what it was

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Don't forget to complete your Freewrite #1 and #2 (if you haven't done so already).

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Don't forget to complete your Freewrite #1 and #2 (if you haven't done so already).

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We will start our personal narratives this week!

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* Monday --
Star Test Reading

Star Test Math

* Thursday --

* Friday --

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Just have your sharpened pencil, agenda, laptop, composition book, and myPerspectives book on the table please. That's enough stuff on any table as is! Keep it tidy!

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Water bottles must be off your table while working!

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Water bottles must be off your table while working!

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Do you have your composition book and pencil ready?

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Do you have your composition book and pencil ready?

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Only two Northern white rhinos are left: Najin and Fatu.

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Only two Northern white rhinos are left: Najin and Fatu.