NOW THAT YOUR REVISION OF THE ELLEN FOSTER ESSAY is complete, we will turn our full attention to Sandra Cisneros's novella, The House on Mango Street. We have read about the author's background, familiarized ourselves with the history of Hispanic neighborhoods, even toured (via video) the National Hispanic Art Museum in Pilsen. You can find the audio to the book here (in two mp3 files--NOT broken up by chapter)

Monday

No classes due to the late start.
HW: Bring your copy of novella with taped/copied annotation questions included to class on Tuesday.

Tuesday

Reading and annotating "Cathy: Queen of Cats," "Our Good Day," "Laughter," "Gil's Furniture Bought and Sold," "Meme Ortiz," and "Louie, His Cousin & His Other Cousin." We are going to practice annotating and noticing some of the more poetic and literary devices at work in Cisneros's novel via this google sheet.
HW: Read page 23 through 34.

Wednesday

Discussion of last night's reading. Review of annotations.
HW: Read page 35 through 45.

Thursday

Discussion of last night's reading. Review of annotations.
HW: Reading pages 46 through 57.

Friday

Pausing from our reading of the novel to examine a photograph using our SEE-THINK-ASK model of examining visual artwork. What is the artist's intentions? What does he want the audience to see? How does he allow his subject matter dual interpretations--the positive and the negative, the good and bad, the wealthy and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly?
HW: Reading pages 58 through 85.