THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET - (ideas from D. Francisco José Gómez Pérez. Profesor de lengua inglesa . Estudios literarios de postgrado en EE.UU ( Temple University, Philadelphia).

 

Here you have a link to the book: 

https://mrperrysclassroom.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/the-house-on-mango-street.pdf

And here you have the audiobook

And here an audio of the first four vignettes

The House on Mango Street is organized into a collection of short memories, called vignettes. Here you have some questions on the different vignettes

1- The house on Mango street- Questions

2- Hair

3- Boys and Girls

4-My name

5-Cathy Queen of Cats

6-Our Good Day

7-Laughter

8-Gil´s Furniture .... And Some More

1- MEET SANDRA CISNEROS:

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954- Chicago is the city where she grew up and went to college, and the city we can glimpse while we read The House on Mango Street. And yet...

FRIENDS- "BOYS AND GIRLS".

What are the writer's expectations about a best firiend?- And yours?

Listen to the song and write down your favourite phrase / sentence. Explain why you chose it.

MY NAME

Get a little taste of Chicago by meeting one of its bards, Carl Sandburg, who wrote a mythical poem about the city. Here are  two very different readings: one by  former  mayor Rahm Emanuel, the other by a young student in Vancouver:

1. Which rendering of the poem do you like best?

Click here to read the poem

1. Is there  a city or town which embodies a "sense of place" for you?

"Where I'm From", by George Ella Lyon

Part of the problem of Esperanza (and Sandra Cisneros herself) is that of not knowing where they really belong. Her memoir, A House of My Own, bears witness to that quest of a place that she could call her own.

Appalachian poet and teacher George Ella Lyon wrote a poem, "Where I'm From", that has been widely used in American classrooms to help students create their own poems while at the same time reflecting on their identities. 

Try to write your own "Where I´m from" poem- Here you have a template-

STORYCORPS:

-Here you have some videos about some people´s experiences: