Trashketball

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Trashketball

• House on Mango Street Review

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Rules of Trashketball

1. Stay in your seats at all times.
2. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer
   to a question AND
3. Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of
   paper.
4. All teams will hold up their answers.
5. If you are correct, your team will get the
   opportunity to shoot the correct response into
   the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line.
6. If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit.
   
7. Shots will be made after ALL the questions have
   been answered.

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• Q.1) 
• Esperanza is named after

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Answer

• Her great grandmother

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• Esperanza dreams of having

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• House of her own

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• Which one of the following would be used as
  evidence to support the claim that the House on
  Mango Street is not what Esperanza wisher for in
  her dream house?
• A. Esperanza thinks the house is too small
• B. Its small and red with tight steps and window
  so small youd think they were holding their
  breath
• C. It had real stairs, not hallway stairs
• D. Wed have a basement and at least three
  washrooms

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Answer

• B. It is small and red with tight steps and
  window so small youd think they were holding
  their breath

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• In "The Family of Little Feet," the girls try on
  high heels and walk around the neighborhood with
  them. They are having a fun time until what
  happens?

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• A bum asks Rachel for a kiss

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• Which one of the following demonstrates
  personification?
• A. We come from Texas
• B. Nenny and I dont look like sisters
• C. As if the wheels were spaghetti
• D. Not the shy giggles

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• D. Not the shygiggles

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• What type of sandwich does Esperanza bring to
  lunch the day she gets to eat in the "Canteen" at
  school?

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• A rice sandwich

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Which one of the following demonstrates a
simile? A. Two girls raggedy as rats live across
the street B. Five dollars, five dollars C. In
English my names means hope D. I would like to
baptize myself under a new name
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• A. Two girls raggedy as rats live across the
  street

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• When the girls are playing double-dutch (jump
  rope) they begin singing about what?

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• Hips

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• Esperanza describes her house as red and
  crumbly. What literary device is the author
  using?

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• Imagery

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• What is Esperanza's first job?

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• Developing pictures

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• What is the significance of the Four Skinny
  Trees vignette?

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• It describes her feelings about overcoming
  obstacles

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• What does Esperanza and Nenny want to buy at the
  antiques store (what do the girls call it in the
  book)?

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• A Music Box

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• What color does Esperanza say her name is like?

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• A muddy color

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• What is the name of the boy Marin dances with at
  a club? (He is later killed by a hit-and-run
  accident.)

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• Geraldo

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• How would you descirbe Esperanza's great
  grandmother?

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• Wild and independent

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• Until then I am a red balloon tied to an
  anchor." This figure of speech is an example of

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• A Metaphor

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• Which character is related to French royalty, and
  also likes cats?

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• Cathy

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• What two things are Alicia afraid of?

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• Mice and Fathers

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• What family has too many kids and no dad?

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• The Vargas family

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• What does Darius say one of the clouds looks
  like?
• Remember this was something that impressed the
  others, since Darius is usually not insightful

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• God

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• Louie, who steals a car, is whose cousin?

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• Marin

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• Esperanza has several interactions with nuns in
  the story. How do the nuns generally make
  Esperanza feel?

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• Ashamed

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• Why is Esperanza embarrassed at the baptism
  party?

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• Her shoes are old

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• What does Elenita, the fortune teller, see in
  Esperanza'a future?

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• A home in the heart

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• In the vignette A Good Day, what makes it a
  good day?

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• Esperanza makes 2 new friends and buys a bike
  with them

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• What is the theme of the novel?

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• Identity

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• Make a connection Relate the novel to important
  ideas of the place in which it is set.

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• Answers will vary. Mrs. Bromagen will decide if
  your team will shoot.