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Jacqueline WoodsonA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these essay questions as writing and critical thinking exercises for all levels of writers, and to build students’ literary analysis skills by requiring textual references.
Differentiation Suggestion: For English learners or struggling writers, helpful strategies include graphic organizers, sentence frames or starters, group work, or oral responses.
Scaffolded Essay Questions
Student Prompt: Write a short (1-3 paragraph) response using one of the bulleted outlines below. Cite details from the text to support your work.
1. Names are a recurring motif in the novel.
2. On the night the Greens’ house is shot at, Toswiah finds Jonathan looking at a photograph of himself with the other members of his precinct.
By Jacqueline Woodson
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