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Chapters 1-3

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Woodson, Jacqueline. Another Brooklyn. HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. Hardcover.

• Another Brooklyn is a contemporary novel by American author Jacqueline Woodson.

• The narrative of this novel is related in the past tense coming from the first-person perspective of August, the story’s protagonist.

• Through the use of flashbacks, the narrator looks both at her recent past, which involves the death and funeral of her father, and her distant past in the 1970s when she was growing up.

• At the start, August reports: "For a long time, my mother wasn't dead yet" (1).

• August explains that although her childhood was not perfect, her father did the best he could.

• August eloquently surmises, "I know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It's the memory" (1).

• The setting of the narrative is in New York City, but no...

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