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Chapters 1-5

· The following version of this book was used to create the lesson plan: Woodson, Jacqueline. If You Come Softly. Puffin Books, 1998.

· This book begins in the present and is written in past tense for ease of reading.

· In Part One, Chapter 1, Jeremiah could tell by the way the sun felt on his skin that he was Black.

· This sense of the sun on his skin made Jeremiah feel safe.

· Jeremiah’s community of Fort Greene, Brooklyn also felt safe, as everyone there “seemed to be some shade of black” (5).

· By simply stepping just outside his community, Jeremiah felt very uncomfortable about his skin color.

· Jeremiah described how he and other boys would give each other a hard time about their skin color, particularly his friend Carlton whose mom was white and dad was Black.

· Nothing serious was meant by these jabs between Jeremiah and his friends...

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