PSST!  The Weekly Challenge answer is the word esperanza means both "hope" and "waiting."
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
Our final reading of the semester is Sandra Cisneros'* The House on Mango Street. Your work with this book should call on a variety of skills and terms you have learned this semester.  Below are brief descriptions of the "Mango Journal" and the Final Project you are to complete as you read The House on Mango Street and once you've finished.
RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW!
Send me an
email to tell me if you prefer to present Tuesday the 16th or Wednesday the 17th, and you will have first dibs on the slots!
Mango Journal

Choose 5 of the prompts to respond to in a response that is AT LEAST ONE PARAGRAPH.  You are to write 5 other one-paragraph entries on topics of your choosing--that relate to
The House on Mango Street, of course.  You can make them up, or you can choose some more prompts on the list.  You will be handing in a ten-entry journal on Friday, December 12.
For more information about Sandra Cisneros, check out some of these sites!

ClassicNotes GradeSaver biography and links

Las Mujeres: Sandra Cisneros
Final Project : Due Tuesday, December 16 and Wednesday, December 17

There are several options that you may choose for your Final Project.  (Note that one option is inventing your own project, but that there are guidelines.)  Your Final Project is a Writing/Projct grade worth 300 points total.  The project you choose from A-H on the list will be worth 50% of your Final Project grade.  You may complete the project by yourself or in groups
no larger than 4.  The other 50%, which must be completed independently, will consist of . . .
1. a story read to the class or on tape (10%)

2. a one-paragraph analysis of a figure of speech from the story (10%)

3. a one-page reaction to the story, or to the book as a whole (20%)

4.  a one-page connection paper, connecting one story, one character, or the whole book to anything else we have read in this class this semester (10%)
RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW!
Send me an
email to tell me if you prefer to present Tuesday the 16th or Wednesday the 17th, and you will have first dibs on the slots!
* notice the apostrophe on the OUTSIDE of her name...remember WHY?
L. Killian, Fairmont High School, Fairmont, NC, 12/01/2003
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