Discuss how the Yellow House both upholds and subverts the conventions of the memoir genre.

Students should be able to analyze how Broom writes about her family's history in the years before she was born, as well as how this inclusion of family history is a departure from the traditional memoir style which is featured in the rest of the book.

Discuss Sarah's complex relationship to New Orleans. Use examples from the text.

Students should be able to identify how Sarah has used place to define her identity and how she has felt both compelled to and repelled by New Orleans at different times in her life. They should also discuss her criticisms of the local bureaucracy as well as issues of income disparity and lack of access to services such as education and healthcare in the area.

Sarah's writing often presents two versions of New Orleans. Compare and contrast these different portrayals of the city.