Thursday, January 28 - House on Mango Street

Objective: By the end of class, students will analyze short fiction and make real life connections in order to improve reading comprehensive and writing skills.

DO NOW
Esperenza has trouble accepting her new house on Mango Street as her home. Someday, she will have a house all her own, she says. Then on page 64, she is told she will have a "home in the heart." What does this mean?

Direct Instruction

Read together - Edna's Ruthie - pages 67-69. 
Remember, Esperenza is naive. 
Similar to other vignettes where the readers understand what is really going on (Marin - prostitute, stolen car, etc), what do we know that Esperenza doesn't realize in Edna's Ruthie?

Read together Four Skinny Trees - pages 74-74  - WHAT DO THE TREES SYMBOLIZE?

Distribute chrome books.

Guided / Independent

1. Go to your google drive and continue a HOUSE ON MANGO STREET PERSONAL JOURNAL. SHARE WITH ME at karenreina1@gmail.com. 

The first page will be your ACROSTIC POEM. Then date your journal and follow the prompts in your packet. 

2. Create another document in google drive entitled " MY HOUSE." In this document you will include all of the elements of the final project. 

If and when done, read the next three vignettes and continue to work through your packet of questions. Be sure to enter all journal entries on google drive - not in your packet. 

I will be grading the first 10 vignettes questions from packet Wednesday, Jan 20.  (DONE)
Then the next 15 ( Marin through Geraldo - No last Name) on Wed Jan 27. DONE
Then the next 15 (Edna's Ruthie to Red Clowns) on Wed, Feb 3. ( DONE)
The last 5 on Friday, Feb 5 (Linoleum Roses to Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes). (pending)

Keep in mind, you will be incorporating pieces of your project during this time as well. The front and back covers poem or song or artwork sections are easy, creative and for grades so get those done first. Everything will be due by February 5, so pace yourself accordingly. The essay portion of the project has been canceled, but will be graded for extra credit as long as every mandatory portion of this project has been completed.

Check for understanding

Individual student checks during independent work.

Closure

Review deadlines an discussion points for Friday.

Exit Pass

Return chrome book to proper place and plug in.

HW - You should be reading at least three -five vignettes per night so you are prepared to work when you get to class.