This document provides instructions for a student named Ambre Lee to highlight pronouns such as he, she, they, and it on pages 7-8 of the book "House on Mango Street" for an assignment from the Dubnoff Center.
The document analyzes common visual elements and styles used in rap album cover art, including direct eye contact and connection with the audience, masculine fonts in bold capital letters, matching outfits to represent unity, use of smoke imagery to reference marijuana, bright colors that make text and logos stand out, and sexually suggestive or provocative poses that attract attention.
The author and their cousin Maddie went to their grandparents' beach house for the summer and wanted to go swimming. Despite their grandmother warning them that it was cold, they drove to the beach on an old tractor and found the water was initially warm. However, the wind started to pick up strongly, making the water feel cold, so they got out and had hot chocolate when they returned to warm up.
The document provides analyses of the window displays for several clothing stores, most following a Christmas theme. Purple, red, and black colors are commonly used to evoke the season, along with Christmas trees, snowflakes, ribbons, gift boxes, and mannequins dressed in holiday attire. Lighting techniques like downlighters and graphics/imagery help set the scene and showcase merchandise. The windows aim to celebrate Christmas while representing each brand's style.
Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican American author who writes about strong Mexican and Mexican American women overcoming difficult lives. She grew up in poverty in Chicago, moving often and feeling shy. This caused her to be a quiet observer, expressing herself through secret writing. She realized the importance of her experiences and heritage in giving her writing voice. Her first book, The House on Mango Street, tells interconnected stories through a young Mexican American girl seeking a better life, conveying life in her poor neighborhood.
- Sandra Cisneros grew up in poverty in Chicago, often moving and having trouble making lasting friendships which led her to become a quiet observer.
- She enrolled in college hoping to find a husband but discovered a desire to be a writer. She attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop but initially felt her background differed from her privileged classmates.
- She realized her experiences as a Mexican-American woman gave her a unique voice. This insight inspired her first book The House on Mango Street, composed of short stories told from the perspective of Esperanza Cordero, a Mexican-American girl wanting to leave her poor neighborhood.
The document provides background information on Sandra Cisneros and her seminal work The House on Mango Street. It discusses her upbringing in Chicago, education, and career as a writer. It summarizes the structure, themes, and characters in Mango Street, which is told through a series of vignettes from the perspective of the young protagonist Esperanza. The document also covers Cisneros' style, including her use of poetic devices to show rather than tell and create an authentic voice.
Sandra Cisneros es una autora y escritora estadounidense nacida en Chicago en 1954, que se mudó por diferentes lugares durante su niñez y recibió una licenciatura en escritura inglesa, además de una beca del National Endowment for Arts. Algunas de sus obras más conocidas incluyen La casa en Mango Street, Caramelo y Woman Hollering Creek.
The document analyzes common visual elements and styles used in rap album cover art, including direct eye contact and connection with the audience, masculine fonts in bold capital letters, matching outfits to represent unity, use of smoke imagery to reference marijuana, bright colors that make text and logos stand out, and sexually suggestive or provocative poses that attract attention.
The author and their cousin Maddie went to their grandparents' beach house for the summer and wanted to go swimming. Despite their grandmother warning them that it was cold, they drove to the beach on an old tractor and found the water was initially warm. However, the wind started to pick up strongly, making the water feel cold, so they got out and had hot chocolate when they returned to warm up.
The document provides analyses of the window displays for several clothing stores, most following a Christmas theme. Purple, red, and black colors are commonly used to evoke the season, along with Christmas trees, snowflakes, ribbons, gift boxes, and mannequins dressed in holiday attire. Lighting techniques like downlighters and graphics/imagery help set the scene and showcase merchandise. The windows aim to celebrate Christmas while representing each brand's style.
Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican American author who writes about strong Mexican and Mexican American women overcoming difficult lives. She grew up in poverty in Chicago, moving often and feeling shy. This caused her to be a quiet observer, expressing herself through secret writing. She realized the importance of her experiences and heritage in giving her writing voice. Her first book, The House on Mango Street, tells interconnected stories through a young Mexican American girl seeking a better life, conveying life in her poor neighborhood.
- Sandra Cisneros grew up in poverty in Chicago, often moving and having trouble making lasting friendships which led her to become a quiet observer.
- She enrolled in college hoping to find a husband but discovered a desire to be a writer. She attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop but initially felt her background differed from her privileged classmates.
- She realized her experiences as a Mexican-American woman gave her a unique voice. This insight inspired her first book The House on Mango Street, composed of short stories told from the perspective of Esperanza Cordero, a Mexican-American girl wanting to leave her poor neighborhood.
The document provides background information on Sandra Cisneros and her seminal work The House on Mango Street. It discusses her upbringing in Chicago, education, and career as a writer. It summarizes the structure, themes, and characters in Mango Street, which is told through a series of vignettes from the perspective of the young protagonist Esperanza. The document also covers Cisneros' style, including her use of poetic devices to show rather than tell and create an authentic voice.
Sandra Cisneros es una autora y escritora estadounidense nacida en Chicago en 1954, que se mudó por diferentes lugares durante su niñez y recibió una licenciatura en escritura inglesa, además de una beca del National Endowment for Arts. Algunas de sus obras más conocidas incluyen La casa en Mango Street, Caramelo y Woman Hollering Creek.
This document provides an overview of the assignments due this week for a class discussing Sandra Cisneros' book "The House on Mango Street". Students are to read 5 chapters per day, write a biopoem, a 5 paragraph essay arguing whether the main character would prefer being a homeowner or tenant, and a research project analyzing Hispanic populations in different states. They also must create a digital presentation of their life. Rubrics for two assignments are available, and all assignments are due by the end of the week on Friday.
The document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language, including simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, imagery, hyperbole, and personification. It then provides exercises for readers to practice using each type of figurative language, such as writing similes to describe feelings, metaphors for bedrooms or friends, lines of alliteration using given letters, and personifying inanimate objects.
The document provides an overview and analysis of Sandra Cisneros's book "The House on Mango Street". It discusses the book's publication history and awards, including winning the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. It also summarizes some of the ethnic themes in the book and both praise and criticism it has received. Finally, it provides examples of interesting analyses and interpretations of symbols in the book from other authors.
The document provides biographical information about author Sandra Cisneros and analyzes her short story "Woman Hollering Creek". It notes that Cisneros was born in Chicago to a Mexican father and Mexican-American mother. Her writing often explores this Mexican-American heritage. The story "Woman Hollering Creek" depicts a woman named Cleofilas in an abusive relationship who seeks help from a doctora and returns to her father in Mexico.
The document is a research paper about the book "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros and how it relates to the research study "Reconstructing Latino Identity" by Torres and Magolda. The paper provides a summary of the book, which follows a young Latina girl named Esperanza growing up in Chicago and her experiences facing stereotypes. It also summarizes the research study, which examined how Latino college students' cognitive development and ethnic identities changed over time. The paper then compares themes between the book and research study, such as exploring cultural stereotypes and identities. It analyzes how characters and subjects in both grappled with stereotypes and sought approval from others to develop their own identities
The document provides an analysis of Chapter One and Chapter Two of the novel "House" by Sandra Cisneros. Chapter One introduces the narrator's experience moving between poor districts of Chicago with her family. The themes of home, family, poverty, and identity are explored through the narrator's poetic prose style. Chapter Two differentiates between the hairstyles of the narrator's family members, with special focus on describing her mother's curly hair and the comfort it provides. Hair is used as a metaphor for the characters. The lyrical language conveys the narrator's longing for home and reflection on finding a place within herself and her family.
This document provides an overview of Shakespeare's Sonnets including the rhyme scheme, line structure, metrical patterns, and themes. It notes that the Sonnets are composed of 3 quatrains and a couplet with an iambic pentameter structure. The document also distinguishes that Sonnets 1-126 are addressed to a "fair youth" discussing reproduction and admiration, while Sonnets 127-152 concern a "dark lady" and themes of infatuation.
The document provides an overview of a presentation on subjective and objective tests. It defines subjective tests as those requiring essay, explanation or description answers, while objective tests can be objectively scored with selected responses. It discusses the purposes of tests in evaluating students and instruction, and how to design subjective tests including short answers and essays. Tips are provided for writing good subjective test questions and scoring student responses. The presentation aims to distinguish between subjective and objective testing methods and items.
This document provides context and objectives for analyzing the novel House on Mango Street through feminist and class lenses. It discusses the author Sandra Cisneros and setting of the novel in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago in the 1950s, following the protagonist Esperanza through vignettes of her childhood. It defines vignette and introduces analyzing the work through feminist and class literary lenses. The document also provides historical context about Chicago in the 1950s and an activity having students analyze details in pictures and their inferences. It discusses how lenses can change one's perspective and gives examples of initial student reactions analyzing a magazine advertisement through feminist and class lenses.
The document defines several words related to flesh and incarnation: carnage refers to great destruction, especially in battle; reincarnation is the rebirth of the soul in a new body; carnival describes a traveling group that provides entertainment; incarnation means a particular physical form or version of something; and discarnate means without a physical body. The examples given include depictions of violence on The Walking Dead, desires to be reborn as a pet, American enjoyment of traveling carnivals in the 19th century, and a sister who changes her image or incarnation to that of a punk rocker.
This document defines different types of eating behaviors - carnivorous refers to flesh-eating, herbivorous means plant-eating, omnivorous indicates feeding on both plants and animals, voracious describes having a huge appetite, and devorative means capable of being swallowed whole. Examples are given for each type, such as dragonflies being carnivorous and plucking prey from the air, marine iguanas being large but herbivorous, and bears eating both fish and berries so they are truly omnivorous.
The document defines and provides examples for several words beginning with "prot/proto": protagonist, protocol, protoplasm, prototype, and protozoa. The protagonist is the main character of a literary work, such as Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel. Protocol refers to rules of behavior, like classroom rules. Protoplasm is the living substance that makes up cells. A prototype is an original model, like the Volkswagen model. Protozoa are one-celled animals.
This document defines and provides examples for the vocabulary words refract, fragile, fragments, infringe, and fracture. Refract refers to the bending of light, as when a pencil in a glass of water appears broken due to refraction. Fragile means easily broken, like a girl's heart after a breakup. Fragments are smaller pieces of something larger, such as shattered glass on the floor. Infringe means to violate or trespass boundaries, as protesters feared police would infringe on their rights. A fracture is a broken surface or crack, such as a hairline fracture of the collarbone.
This document defines and provides examples for the terms hypochondriac, hypocrisy, hypothermia, hypothetical, and hypodermic. Hypochondriac refers to someone overly concerned with their health who may believe they have diseases. Hypocrisy is professing beliefs one does not hold. Hypothermia is a subnormal body temperature. Hypothetical means imagined for example purposes. Hypodermic refers to introducing medicine under the skin.
This document defines and provides examples for several vocabulary words related to relationships and love. It defines am/im as coming from the Latin word for "to love". It then defines and provides examples for the words amicable, meaning friendly; enamored, meaning charmed or fascinated; inimical, meaning hostile; paramour, meaning a secret or illicit lover; and amateur, meaning a non-professional who pursues an activity as a hobby rather than career.
This document defines and provides examples for words derived from the root word "lev". It defines alleviate as lessening suffering, elevate as lifting or raising, leavening as lightening mood, levity as lack of seriousness, and levitate as rising up or floating in air. Examples are given such as using Advil to alleviate a headache, elevating a sprained leg to reduce swelling, a comedian providing levity at a graduation, and a brother wanting to levitate to charge kids to see it.
The document discusses poetic devices used in Maya Angelou's poem "Women Work". It defines terms like stanza, rhyme, imperfect rhyme, enjambment, and repetition. It also provides examples of these devices from the poem and asks the reader to identify instances within the poem.
The document defines key terms related to transportation, distribution, and logistics. It defines distribute as moving or giving out goods and products to buyers or customers. Logistics is defined as the planning and operations involved in moving people and products. Freight is defined as goods or products distributed by truck, train, boat, or airplane.
The document is about making inferences from stories and includes the nursery rhyme "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe". It asks questions about the rhyme that require explicit answers directly from the text or inferential answers using clues. It discusses making inferences to understand what is not directly stated by the author.
This document provides an overview of the assignments due this week for a class discussing Sandra Cisneros' book "The House on Mango Street". Students are to read 5 chapters per day, write a biopoem, a 5 paragraph essay arguing whether the main character would prefer being a homeowner or tenant, and a research project analyzing Hispanic populations in different states. They also must create a digital presentation of their life. Rubrics for two assignments are available, and all assignments are due by the end of the week on Friday.
The document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language, including simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, imagery, hyperbole, and personification. It then provides exercises for readers to practice using each type of figurative language, such as writing similes to describe feelings, metaphors for bedrooms or friends, lines of alliteration using given letters, and personifying inanimate objects.
The document provides an overview and analysis of Sandra Cisneros's book "The House on Mango Street". It discusses the book's publication history and awards, including winning the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. It also summarizes some of the ethnic themes in the book and both praise and criticism it has received. Finally, it provides examples of interesting analyses and interpretations of symbols in the book from other authors.
The document provides biographical information about author Sandra Cisneros and analyzes her short story "Woman Hollering Creek". It notes that Cisneros was born in Chicago to a Mexican father and Mexican-American mother. Her writing often explores this Mexican-American heritage. The story "Woman Hollering Creek" depicts a woman named Cleofilas in an abusive relationship who seeks help from a doctora and returns to her father in Mexico.
The document is a research paper about the book "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros and how it relates to the research study "Reconstructing Latino Identity" by Torres and Magolda. The paper provides a summary of the book, which follows a young Latina girl named Esperanza growing up in Chicago and her experiences facing stereotypes. It also summarizes the research study, which examined how Latino college students' cognitive development and ethnic identities changed over time. The paper then compares themes between the book and research study, such as exploring cultural stereotypes and identities. It analyzes how characters and subjects in both grappled with stereotypes and sought approval from others to develop their own identities
The document provides an analysis of Chapter One and Chapter Two of the novel "House" by Sandra Cisneros. Chapter One introduces the narrator's experience moving between poor districts of Chicago with her family. The themes of home, family, poverty, and identity are explored through the narrator's poetic prose style. Chapter Two differentiates between the hairstyles of the narrator's family members, with special focus on describing her mother's curly hair and the comfort it provides. Hair is used as a metaphor for the characters. The lyrical language conveys the narrator's longing for home and reflection on finding a place within herself and her family.
This document provides an overview of Shakespeare's Sonnets including the rhyme scheme, line structure, metrical patterns, and themes. It notes that the Sonnets are composed of 3 quatrains and a couplet with an iambic pentameter structure. The document also distinguishes that Sonnets 1-126 are addressed to a "fair youth" discussing reproduction and admiration, while Sonnets 127-152 concern a "dark lady" and themes of infatuation.
The document provides an overview of a presentation on subjective and objective tests. It defines subjective tests as those requiring essay, explanation or description answers, while objective tests can be objectively scored with selected responses. It discusses the purposes of tests in evaluating students and instruction, and how to design subjective tests including short answers and essays. Tips are provided for writing good subjective test questions and scoring student responses. The presentation aims to distinguish between subjective and objective testing methods and items.
This document provides context and objectives for analyzing the novel House on Mango Street through feminist and class lenses. It discusses the author Sandra Cisneros and setting of the novel in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago in the 1950s, following the protagonist Esperanza through vignettes of her childhood. It defines vignette and introduces analyzing the work through feminist and class literary lenses. The document also provides historical context about Chicago in the 1950s and an activity having students analyze details in pictures and their inferences. It discusses how lenses can change one's perspective and gives examples of initial student reactions analyzing a magazine advertisement through feminist and class lenses.
The document defines several words related to flesh and incarnation: carnage refers to great destruction, especially in battle; reincarnation is the rebirth of the soul in a new body; carnival describes a traveling group that provides entertainment; incarnation means a particular physical form or version of something; and discarnate means without a physical body. The examples given include depictions of violence on The Walking Dead, desires to be reborn as a pet, American enjoyment of traveling carnivals in the 19th century, and a sister who changes her image or incarnation to that of a punk rocker.
This document defines different types of eating behaviors - carnivorous refers to flesh-eating, herbivorous means plant-eating, omnivorous indicates feeding on both plants and animals, voracious describes having a huge appetite, and devorative means capable of being swallowed whole. Examples are given for each type, such as dragonflies being carnivorous and plucking prey from the air, marine iguanas being large but herbivorous, and bears eating both fish and berries so they are truly omnivorous.
The document defines and provides examples for several words beginning with "prot/proto": protagonist, protocol, protoplasm, prototype, and protozoa. The protagonist is the main character of a literary work, such as Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel. Protocol refers to rules of behavior, like classroom rules. Protoplasm is the living substance that makes up cells. A prototype is an original model, like the Volkswagen model. Protozoa are one-celled animals.
This document defines and provides examples for the vocabulary words refract, fragile, fragments, infringe, and fracture. Refract refers to the bending of light, as when a pencil in a glass of water appears broken due to refraction. Fragile means easily broken, like a girl's heart after a breakup. Fragments are smaller pieces of something larger, such as shattered glass on the floor. Infringe means to violate or trespass boundaries, as protesters feared police would infringe on their rights. A fracture is a broken surface or crack, such as a hairline fracture of the collarbone.
This document defines and provides examples for the terms hypochondriac, hypocrisy, hypothermia, hypothetical, and hypodermic. Hypochondriac refers to someone overly concerned with their health who may believe they have diseases. Hypocrisy is professing beliefs one does not hold. Hypothermia is a subnormal body temperature. Hypothetical means imagined for example purposes. Hypodermic refers to introducing medicine under the skin.
This document defines and provides examples for several vocabulary words related to relationships and love. It defines am/im as coming from the Latin word for "to love". It then defines and provides examples for the words amicable, meaning friendly; enamored, meaning charmed or fascinated; inimical, meaning hostile; paramour, meaning a secret or illicit lover; and amateur, meaning a non-professional who pursues an activity as a hobby rather than career.
This document defines and provides examples for words derived from the root word "lev". It defines alleviate as lessening suffering, elevate as lifting or raising, leavening as lightening mood, levity as lack of seriousness, and levitate as rising up or floating in air. Examples are given such as using Advil to alleviate a headache, elevating a sprained leg to reduce swelling, a comedian providing levity at a graduation, and a brother wanting to levitate to charge kids to see it.
The document discusses poetic devices used in Maya Angelou's poem "Women Work". It defines terms like stanza, rhyme, imperfect rhyme, enjambment, and repetition. It also provides examples of these devices from the poem and asks the reader to identify instances within the poem.
The document defines key terms related to transportation, distribution, and logistics. It defines distribute as moving or giving out goods and products to buyers or customers. Logistics is defined as the planning and operations involved in moving people and products. Freight is defined as goods or products distributed by truck, train, boat, or airplane.
The document is about making inferences from stories and includes the nursery rhyme "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe". It asks questions about the rhyme that require explicit answers directly from the text or inferential answers using clues. It discusses making inferences to understand what is not directly stated by the author.
Ambre Lee was instructed to open a PowerPoint presentation, select a slide theme, and title the PowerPoint with her name on the title page. She was then told to find a job description on the CDMcareerzone website, add a picture from Google Images to one slide, and add that same picture as well as a YouTube video linking to footage of that job's work conditions to another slide. Finally, she wrote the education requirements, salary, and job outlook for the position using information from the job description.
The document defines common figurative language terms like simile and metaphor. It provides examples of each term. It then presents excerpts from short stories and asks comprehension questions about the details and events in the stories. Key details defined include that a simile compares two unlike things using "like" or "as", while a metaphor compares without those words. Examples of each from the stories are referenced.
The document provides guidelines for a paper on the first 100 pages of a book. It lists requirements for the heading, format, and content of paragraphs for the paper. The paper must include an introductory paragraph with a focus statement, claim, and preview of body paragraphs. Two to three body paragraphs should detail the plot and be interesting for the reader. A conclusion should restate the claim, explain the opinion of the story so far, and predict what will happen next.
This chapter discusses careers and decision making. It covers career clusters and compares job outlooks across major industries. It also surveys average incomes for different levels of education. Key terms defined include industry, apprenticeship, agriculture, natural resources, mining, and extraction. Students are asked to consider industries and jobs they may be interested in. The lesson also covers terms and careers related to agriculture, food and natural resources. A video describes salaries and job outlooks for various careers in this area. Students are asked to create a 3-4 slide PowerPoint to present this information.
The document outlines a 5 step process for making a decision: 1) set a clear goal or objective, 2) establish priorities related to the goal, 3) explore all available options for achieving the goal, 4) assess the risks associated with each option, and 5) make a detailed plan for carrying out the chosen option.
This document provides guidelines and grading criteria for an essay assignment about Harry Houdini. It includes instructions for formatting, headings, and sections. The essay should have an introduction with a claim statement and preview of three body paragraphs. Each body paragraph should be detailed and use transitions to explore different aspects of Houdini. The conclusion should restate the claim, answer "so what?", and explain why people should learn about Houdini and why he remains fascinating. Sections are graded on a 100 point scale.
This document discusses researching career choices and resources for career planning. It introduces the objectives of understanding how to research career choices, learning about the CDMCareerZone website, and identifying school and community resources. Key terms are defined, including wage and wage equity. Readers are instructed to complete pages 56, 57, 62 of their materials and questions 1, 2, and 4 on page 63.
The document discusses common writing errors such as run-on sentences and missing commas. It provides examples of run-on sentences that need to be rewritten with proper punctuation or breaking into separate sentences. It also gives examples of sentences missing commas in introductory phrases and asks the reader to identify where commas should be placed.
The document provides guidance on adding details to writing by having students analyze a brief paragraph about being in two fights. It prompts students to write questions about who was involved, where and when the fights took place, what happened, why the fights started, and how the author felt afterwards. The goal is for students to use their questions to expand the paragraph into a more descriptive account of the fights.
The document provides guidance on writing a conclusion by stating that a conclusion should stress the main idea/thesis statement of the essay, give the essay a sense of completeness, leave a final impression on the reader, and answer the question "So what?". It also provides an example conclusion paragraph that summarizes some of the unpredictable events that occurred on the author's first day at their job at Dubnoff Center.