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Passage 1:  "'Earlier, there had been a minor calamity. The Hubermanns couldn't find their flag. "They'll come for us," Mama warned her husband. "They'll come and take us away." They. "We have to find it!" At one point, it seemed like Papa might have to go down to the basement and paint a flag on one of his drop sheets. Thankfully, it turned up, buried behind the accordion in the cupboard" (Zusak 103).  (The Führer Flag/ Flag of Nazi Germany) I choose this passage as it stood out to me. It stood out to me because of how fearful they were that they didn't have a flag outside and how they feared for their lives when welcoming the Führer. They were coming to visit and everyone had to have their flag out and decorate, and that's simply what they did. However, the amount of fear if they couldn't find something was very high. Something so simple could get them killed and that's truly saddening. While reading this I was s...

  Simone Arnold (Child)    Inge Auerbacher (Child) This activity was really interesting and different from most of the discussions, it was more engaging and I enjoyed it! We get to know more information about each Holocaust individual and have a conversation from their point of view. I thought this was fun! I choose Simone Arnold and the person I responded to choose Inge Auerbacher. We had fun conversations back and forth and got to connect and learn more about one another. During our dialogue, we simply talked about our experiences during and after as we were both liberated. We not only talked about our experiences butt connected on topics and issues we experienced during this time. Ellen who was Inge Auerbacher mentioned her experience of going to Terezin and how she hoped it would be better and it wasn't. We just got to know one another and our individual children who experienced the Holocaust and lived through it. Our dialogue was quite interesting and I feel we learn...

  What does the title tell you about the book? Does it tell the truth?        Jacqueline Woodson had a meaning behind naming her book Brown Girl Dreaming. I did some further research and this is what I found. Jacqueline Woodson mentioned, " My grandmother would always say to me, 'You're a pretty brown girl,'" she says. "There was something about 'brown' that felt more universal, and it was speaking to more people than myself."' Although it still mentions brown it's not necessarily drawn to one skin tone or one ethnicity. It's a broad area and like she said felt more universal. Here is the link to the article if you want to read it.        Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson lives to its title. Jacqueline Woodson tells her story and experiences through the form of poetry (memoir). All her stories are different and add something new to the novel. Before reading the novel I thought the book was going to be about Jacqueline Woods...

  Dear Author Jacqueline Woodson,     How has the Civil Rights Movement and growing up during that time impacted you today? I feel the pain and heartfelt stories that you connected through your book Brown Girl Dreaming. While growing up you seemed to be protected and shielded from a lot of it but how did this impact you after those years of being shielded and into adult years? What part of the Civil Rights Movement affected you most after not being protected by your grandma?      I feel there is so much in society that still needs to be changed and worked on to better for everyone, that being in race, background, ethnicity, etc. It's still saddening to see things in the news about protests, equal rights, and lots more! It's been many years, decades, centuries of getting things to change and just nothing!       What is one takeaway from your experiences you've gone through as you got older that wish didn't still exist today? There are sti...