Every year my team collaborates to find a class novel to teach for eighth grade. Yet every year, we lack the funding. Brown Girl Dreaming is an autobiographical story told through verse about Jacqueline Woodson's early childhood and her dream of becoming an author. An essential question to guide the unit is: What does it take for us to pursue our dreams? The unit will cover reading standards RL 8.2, RL 8.3, RL 8.4, 8.5; writing standard W 8.2; language standards L 8.6, L8.1B; and speaking and listening standards SL8.1A, SL 8.1B.
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Every year my team collaborates to find a class novel to teach for eighth grade. Yet every year, we lack the funding. Brown Girl Dreaming is an autobiographical story told through verse about Jacqueline Woodson's early childhood and her dream of becoming an author. An essential question to guide the unit is: What does it take for us to pursue our dreams? The unit will cover reading standards RL 8.2, RL 8.3, RL 8.4, 8.5; writing standard W 8.2; language standards L 8.6, L8.1B; and speaking and listening standards SL8.1A, SL 8.1B.