Unit 2: “The Bonds Between Us”Text #1Worth: 20 points

Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street (an Introduction)

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Objective: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.2Integrate the presented video clip of Sandra Cisneros’s, The House on Mango Street in order to understand the author’s background (context), story structure, and motivations for writing the novel before we read it.

Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist whose work explores the lives of the working-class. ... Sandra Cisneros is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and earns her living by her pen. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende.

Instructions: Listen carefully to the video clip, “The House on Mango Street-The Story” and fill in the missing blank spaces by typing the missing word, AND highlighting it yellow. ERASE THE LINE ONCE YOU HAVE TYPED THE WORD AND HIGHLIGHTED IT. Pay attention! The first answer is in the first few seconds of the video!

Transcript: “The House on Mango Street”-The Story

The House on Mango Street is about a young woman’s search for a ____________

of her own and by that I meant, the character was looking for another way to

________, “otro modo de hacer.” I'm quoting from Rosario Castellano, the

Mexican feminist and novelist but, people also take that she was looking for

a real physical home and yes, that's true, but only insofar as it could

create a space for her to _____________herself, another way to be other than

Unit 2: “The Bonds Between Us”Text #1Worth: 20 pointswhat you _____________ from our culture that is very male-dominated. In my

own life I was not aware when I was writing ____________story that I was

also going to be writing some parts of my life in the future so subsequently

people blur the book for my own life. In relation to House on Mango Street

people always ask are you Esperanza did this happened to you and I'm not

Esperanza, I'm the ______of all the stories that have passed through me that

I've heard, that I've witnessed and Esperanza becomes a composite of all of

the above so, sometimes people presume that what happened to Esperanza

happened to me, not necessarily, but certainly some things that happened

anything that passed through my heart is what I can write about so if

something happened to you if something happened to my students, my mother,

if something happened to myself, I take all of those pieces and I put them

into Esperanza so some fibers of those stories are mine. There is no Mango

Street in __________, there is a Mango Avenue. I didn't know that a Mango

Avenue existed when I wrote House on Mango Street. The House on Mango Street

is based on a real house, in a real neighborhood, humble park, at a real

address but I picked up experiences and stories from other neighborhoods I

lived in, other places I teached at, other communities I visited and

manipulated them and put them in this invented neighborhood called a House

on Mango Street. In real life the house was not on Mango Avenue or Mango

Street, it was on Campbell Street but I couldn't call it the house on

Campbell Street because everybody would think of the soup right? And at that

time I wasn't a very good storyteller so I thought well what sounds like mmm

Campbell but has nothing to do with Campbell and I just would say it and as

I was a poet I would say it until a word that had more or less those vowel

sounds so I could trick myself. However, when I moved into this

neighborhood, the house on Campbell Street, it was not like the House on

Mango Street. When I moved away from the house on Campbell Street, it looked

Unit 2: “The Bonds Between Us”Text #1Worth: 20 pointslike the neighborhood of the house on Mango Street. So you as an artist

manipulate __________ you move things around, you cut and shape the way a

gardener would shape a garden so that you can see certain flowers and pay

attention to certain plants, otherwise it's just a jungle. And it's the

writer's job to cut away and prune and shape and make order from that jungle

so that you can pay attention and see certain colors and patterns and that's

what I did with the real House on Mango Street from my ____________ and the

invented House on Mango Street in my fiction. What attracts people to The

House on Mango Street I think, I’m only going to guess because I’m not them

but I think that it speaks to young people's ______________,_______________,

and _______________. I think adolescence is a period of great solitude and a

period when you don't know where you're going to go, what choices you want

to make and you don't really have the menu in front of you, nobody kind of

gives you a menu of what possibilities are there. You basically have to

invent it as you go and you don't know who you're going to become yet so

you're looking around for models as Esperanza is. She's looking at other

women around her saying I don't want to go that way, I'm not going that way

but where do I go? And where do I fit in it? And how do I make myself into

the person I want to be if I don't see that person I want to be? I think

that that's true for young people of any culture and there are teens when

one day they still feel like a kid and the next day you know you've got the

responsibilities of the adult. So, I think that House on Mango Street speaks

to people who are living in that amphibia zone of childhood and adulthood

and feeling very frightened being there and very lonely and I think that's

why it speaks to young people.

It’s Time to Write in the box below!

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● Think about your life experiences. How do you currently relate to

Esperanza?

● Write one T.E.S.T. paragraph about one specific experience that

describes how you relate to Esperanza.

● Remember, a T.E.S.T. paragraph requires you to include evidence to

support your response.

● Reference the T.E.S.T. paragraph template in Google Classroom to make

sure your paragraph is accurate and complete.

*Include one piece of evidence from the video clip. For this assignment,

you may use the pronoun, “I” to describe your experience.

My Life Experience Paragraph

Topic Sentence:

Context Sentence:

Evidence from video clip to support your topic sentence:

Significance (importance) of your evidence:

Tie Back Sentence (to your topic sentence:

Altogether(color coded):

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