![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to the examination of racism through the eyes of a young person, Woodson also tackles issues of the broken family, religion, death and illness, imprisonment, and her experience with a learning disability. Eventually, her mother moves the family to Brooklyn, New York. Jackie's parents separate when she is an infant, and she travels from Ohio with her mother and siblings to live with her maternal grandparents in South Carolina. The narrative begins at her birth and describes what life was like growing up during the civil rights era in both the North and the South. ![]() The Plot: In Brown Girl Dreaming, Woodson traces the experiences of her first person speaker Jackie (who is the representation of Woodson's childhood self). If you are interested in teaching Woodson's work, HERE is an activity that I use to open up my students' discussion of Brown Girl Dreaming. Each time I come to Woodson's work, I find something new, and it becomes a richer text for me. This laureateship aims to promote poetry to children and their families, teachers, and librarians over the course of its two-year tenure." This week, I read Brown Girl Dreaming for the fifth time and taught it for the third semester in my Literature for the Intermediate Reader class at Western Michigan University. The laureate advises the Poetry Foundation on matters relating to young people’s literature and may engage in a variety of projects to help instill a lifelong love of poetry among the nation’s developing readers. On the Poetry Foundation's website, they note that this "title is given to a living writer in recognition of a career devoted to writing exceptional poetry for young readers. In the summer of 2015, Woodson was named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Express yourself effortlessly with an integrated 115,000 word Webster's dictionary and an extensive thesaurus with over 2.5 million synonyms.Published in 2014, Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming has been awarded the 2014 National Book Award for Young People, the 2015 Coretta Scott King Award, and was named a 2015 Newbery Honor Book. Create song hooks, advertising slogans, headlines and titles by searching for phonetic similarities or exact word matches. Find suitable rhymes more efficiently with a special Songwriter Dictionary compiled from over 600,000 song lyrics and a convenient wordfilter with over 130,000 parts of speech. Command a freely scalable dictionary with more than 9 million phonetic references and break through creative bottlenecks with one of the largest collections of American sayings, idioms, popular names, places and trademarked brands. Change from one-syllabic to multi-syllabic rhymes with a single click and see a wealth of near rhymes appear by simply decreasing the similarity in sound. Instantly find perfect rhymes as easily as entering a word and flex Rhyme Genie's muscle with a powerful intelligent rhyme algorithm. Author's reviewįree your creative spirits with the world's first dynamic rhyming dictionary with 30 different rhyme types and over 300,000 entries including 170,000 phrases, 35,000 proper nouns and 48,000 titles of charted songs. Rhyme Genie is an excellent tool for anyone with writers block or who needs a little help sparking their imagination with a story or rhyme. ![]() I like the way that Rhyme Genie conveniently orders words and the interface is generally easy to use although I found switching views could have been made easier. In the full version, you can also see Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs and Nouns but in this demo you can only see a three second preview of each of these category before it switches back to Syllables. I can see that the great thing about Rhyme Genie is that it sparks your imagination in areas that you normally wouldn't have considered, and of course reveals words you'd probably never even thought of. There were no returns for one syllable although the word itself is two syllables so that's a bit much to expect anyway. For example, for the word "Software" I got about 30 results including "airfare, fanfare, class warfare, legionnaire, go on welfare and no thoroughfare". Just type the word you'd like to rhyme in the dialog box at the top and Rhyme Genie will instantly deliver words of up to four syllables that rhyme with it. When it opens, click Demo Mode and you can start searching for words. Note that you must drag and install the Rhyme Genie folder to your Applications folder as running it from the Disk Image means it won't work properly. ![]()
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