House On Mango Street

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House On Mango Street

• Objective Understand the use of Figurative
  Language and its appeal

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Think and Write Name Story

• Share the story of your name-history, thoughts,
  and feelings in one paragraph. You may want to
  include the following
• 1. Why did your parents choose your name?
• 2. If you were named after someone, who
• was it?
• 3. In what country did it originate?
• 4. What does it mean
• 5. How do you feel about it?
• 6. What other name do you identify with?

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CATAPULT

• Covers (front and back)
• -what does the front cover show us
• about what we might visualize in the
• book/story? What does the book cover
• tell us about the story (the words, the
• pictures, or both?)
• Author-
• - what is the authors background? Has
• she or he written any other stories that

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CATAPULT

• might be like this? What were they about?
• Title
• - What does the title lead us to predict
• about the story?
• Audience
• For whom was this story written? Old
• young male female city-dwelling
• country-dwelling past present or
• future readers?

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CATAPULT

• Page 1
• -Read pg. 1 and think about what the
• story might be about
• Underlying message or purpose
• -With what we have thought about so
• far, what message or purpose might
• the author have for the readers?

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CATAPULT

• Look at visuals, maps, sketches, or the format
  (style) of the text
• - As we look through the story, what
• do any of the above tell us about the
• story? How will they add to our ability
• to visualize events and characters?
• Time, place, characters
• - From clues so far, what can we say
• about when the story takes place,
• where it takes place, and the characters?
• What can we guess might happen to the
• characters?

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Sandra Cisneros

• Born in Chicago
• The only girl among seven children
• Family moved back and forth from
• Chicago to Mexico
• She grew up in a poor home
• Looked to stories to escape
• She dreamed of a permanent stable home much like
  those on T.V. and in
• books.
• Poetry writing started in high school
• Continued writing in college where she
• developed her own unique voice
• Taught high school dropouts-experience
• with the problems of young Latinas.
• college recruiter, counselor, lit.
  director,
• guest professor

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Inferences

• What kinds of stories do you think
• she will tell? What kinds of
• characters will she include?

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The House on Mango Street

• 1. One of the more popular Chicana authors
• 2. HOM is somewhere between fiction and
• poetry
• 3. Her first book
• 4. She writes about real people she has
• encountered
• 5. Issues that are important to her love,
• feminism, oppression, and religion.
• 6. In HOM, the protagonist is Esperanza,
• a poor Latina adolescent who longs for
• a room of her own and a house of which
• she can be proud.
• 7. She has also written Women Hollering
• Creek, and a collection of poems called
• My Wicked, Wicked Ways

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A Values Survey

• Write the qualities that describe you best
• 1. (a) independent (b) nurturing
• 2. (a) assertive (b) gentle
• 3. (a) goal oriented (b) expressive

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A Values Survey cont.

• Choose which things you value the most
• 4 (a) an exciting life (b) true friendship
• 5 (a) social recognition (b) inner harmony
• 6 (a) a comfortable life (b) happiness
• 7 (a) national security (b) a world of beauty
• 8 (a) accomplishment (b) love
• 9 (a) pleasure (b) equality
• 10 (a) freedom (b) security

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Values Survey cont.

• What do you value the most in a
• friendship?
• 11 (a) doing things together
• (b) opportunities to share feelings
• 12 Do you show your feelings often and easily?
• (a) no
• (b) yes
• 13. If you could be any animal, what
  would you be?
• Why?

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Quiz Review

• 1. State what literary device(s) are being
• used in the example.
• 2. Give the definition of the device
• Discuss the significance of the device using
  strong verbs (See example)
• The narrator emphasizes.
• The narrator is suggesting..
• Is afraid of nothing except four legged fur.
• And fathers.
• That one next to the one that looks like
• popcorn. That one there. Thats God..

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Memorable Characters

• Thus far, who is the most memorable
• character and why?
• What is Cisneros suggesting through the use of
  this character? In other words, why
• is the character in the story?
• What are some important issues raised in
• the story?
• Are you liking/disliking the story? Why?

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Analysis Practice Understanding Appeal

• Born Bad pg. 58
• 1. What is the basic situation?
• 2. Note three examples of imagery
• 3. What sense does the imagery appeal to?
• 4. What is the appeal of the imagery?
• In other words, what does the imagery
• do? Use your Power Verbs!!!

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Analysis Practice continued

• Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water pg. 62
• 1. What is the basic situation?
• 2. Find the predominant metaphor
• 3. What two things are being compared?
• 4. What is your interpretation of this
• metaphor? In other words, what is
• Elenita telling Esperanza?

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Invitation to the Great Outdoors

• Can you keep a secret? Then follow me
• Through meadows and woods to the open sea,
• Through craggy cracks in city walks,
• Through fields of scraggly, huskery stalks.
• Run with me through Seasons doors
• And sneak through chink in cabin floors,
• Fly up and away to starlight skies,
• Slide back on shadows just your size
• And then then youll begin to see
• The secret Shhhhtween youand me
• That the best, most beautiful, greatest stuff
• Of which theres NEVER not enough,
• Comes from Natures lovely store
• Her shelves are filed with fun galore!
• And except for things like past or glue,
• An occasional jar or worn-out shoe,
• Perhaps some soap or snips of string,
• You neednt have another thing-
• Cuz the lady who paints the days sunrises

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Invitation to the Great Outdoors

• Can you keep a secret? Then follow me
• Through meadows and woods to the open sea,
• Through craggy cracks in city walks,
• Through fields of scraggly, huskery stalks.
• Run with me through Seasons doors
• And sneak through chink in cabin floors,
• Fly up and away to starlight skies,
• Slide back on shadows just your size
• And then then youll begin to see
• The secret Shhhhtween youand me
• That the best, most beautiful, greatest stuff
• Of which theres NEVER not enough,
• Comes from Natures lovely store
• Her shelves are filed with fun galore!
• And except for things like past or glue,
• An occasional jar or worn-out shoe,
• Perhaps some soap or snips of string,
• You neednt have another thing-
• Cuz the lady who paints the days sunrises

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Green isnt so Bad

• Green is the rhythmic chirping of crickets,
• The way a pickle pinches your tongue,
• And the dentists fluoride treatments.
• Green is mold and jealousy.
• And the velvet stretch of a golf course.
• Green is having the flu in math class.
• Green stains the seat of your baseball pants,
• Paints a forest of pine trees,
• Drips slime on a slippery frog,
• Dots a pond with algae,
• Lends the music to a rushing stream.
• Quiet is green
• So is spinach, St. Patricks Day, a lizard, and
  loneliness.
• You are green when your heart is broken.
• Green is sour.
• Green is cold and crunchy
• You can take green to the bank!

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Green isnt so Bad

• Green is the rhythmic chirping of crickets,
• The way a pickle pinches your tongue,
• And the dentists fluoride treatments.
• Green is mold and jealousy.
• And the velvet stretch of a golf course.
• Green is having the flu in math class.
• Green stains the seat of your baseball pants,
• Paints a forest of pine trees,
• Drips slime on a slippery frog,
• Dots a pond with algae,
• Lends the music to a rushing stream.
• Quiet is green
• So is spinach, St. Patricks Day, a lizard, and
  loneliness.
• You are green when your heart is broken.
• Green is sour.
• Green is cold and crunchy
• You can take green to the bank!

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Simile Practice. Literary Response and Analysis
3.0 Interpret and describe the function of
literary devices

• Blackberry Sweet
• Black girl black girl
• Lips as curved as cherries
• Full as grape bunches
• Sweet as blackberries
• Black girl black girl
• When you walk you are
• Magic as a rising bird
• Or a falling star
• Black girl black girl
• Whats your spell to make
• The heart in my breast
• Jump stop shake
• -----Dudley Randall

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Understanding Figurative Language

• 1. Who is the speaker in this poem?
• 2. The poem uses simile very obviously in the
  first
• two verses. Write down all the similes.
  You should find
• five. Which one do you find the most
  effective or
• appealing? Explain your answer.
• 3. The final verse contains a metaphor. What is
  it?
• What two things are being compared?
• 4. In what way is the title of the poem a
  metaphor?

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Harlem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

• What happens to a dream deferred?
• Does it dry up
• Like a raisin in the sun
• Or fester like a sore-
• And then run?
• Does it stink like rotten meat?
• Or crust and sugar over-
• Like a syrupy sweet?
• Maybe it just sags
• like a heavy load.
• Or does it explode?

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• 1. Identify how Hughes uses imagery for all 5
  senses in the poem
• Sight ______________
• Taste_______________
• Touch______________
• Smell ______________
• Sound ______________
• 2. How does the total of all of the imagery add
  up to answering the question put forth by the
  speaker in line one, What happens to a dream
  deferred?
• 3. What is the unspoken message the speaker is
  telling the reader about going after their own
  dreams?
• 4. Why does the author use imagery?