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

DO NOW

Get a chrome book - open up to google docs. Save a file as HOMS JOURNAL. Share with me. You will make daily entries in your journal - reactions to the vignettes that we read. - so a total of 10 entries (we will finish this book by Friday, April 7th).

Direct Instruction

A vignette is a brief episode. Unlike a chapter of a book, each vignette can stand alone; they do not necessarily lead to each other.

Read - House on Mango Street  pages 3-13

Guided 

Consider the themes of each of the vignettes that we just read.
1. Hope and Dreams (house on mango street)
2. Teenage embarrassment (house on mango street)
3. Security of Family (hairs)
4. Social isolation ((boys and girls)
5. The role of women in the Mexican culture (my name)
6. Being Naive (cathy queen of cats)

Choose one and discuss how Cisneros uses figurative language to explain the theme. Then make a personal connection to this theme (how does it apply to you? What is your experience with this theme?)

are you naive?



HW - read pages 14-22