Objective: The students will complete the reading and analysis of the final Mango Vignettes.

1. Get folder and lit book.
2. Read all of the remaining vignettes (there are 6 left)
3. Complete the vignette handout for the remaining 6. Just use the back of the paper to hold all 6.
4. Book Report Due Tuesday! NO LATE PAPERS!!!!!!

Objective: The students will read four more vignettes.

1. Beautiful and Cruel
2. A Smart Cookie
3. What Sally Said
4. The Monkey Garden

Book Report must be turned in on Tuesday. Since I extended it, DON'T EXPECT ME TO ACCEPT IT late!!!!

Extra Credit MOney: Today, Tomorrow at the game...or Tuesday.

Objective: Students will read and analyze four more vignettes.

1. Get Mango, Worksheet and folder
2. Read
Rafaela Who Drinks... 79
Sally... 81
Minerva Writes Poems...84
Bums in the Attic... 87
3. Complete Vignette Worksheet 31-34
4. Complete yesterday's worksheet for today's vignettes.

Book Report due Friday!!!!

Objective: Students will analyze Cisneros' writing style.

1. Get Mango and assignment packet.
2. CAT6
3. Work through packet up to page 77.
4. Vignettes due typed tomorrow.
5. Book Report on Friday! Bring book.

Objective: Students will write Utopian Literature.

1. CAT6
2. Discuss Extra Credit (last bit)
3. Notes
4. Short Vid
5. Read/Listen to example of Utopian Lit
6. Analyze and Write

Objective: Analyze and write 2 vignettes.

1. Get folders and Mango.
2. Read Four Skinny Trees and No Speak English
3. Write your own vignettes 1. address a social issue like Geraldo No Last Name (which addresses prejudice/racism) 2. one that compares you to something you see everyday (symbolizes you) like Four Skinny Trees.

Objective: The students will read two poems that use tone and personification perfectly and then will discuss their elements.

1. Get lit book and folder.
2. CAT6
3. Show me, the teacher, your completed, typed vignettes on neighbor and neighborhood.
4. Notes
5. Poem discussion
6. Book report preparation/reading. Due in 6 days.

Objective: The students will read four more vignettes from Mango Street and complete their original ones on a neighbor and their neighborhood.

1. CAT6
2. Vignettes: The First Job (p. 53)
Papa Wakes up Tired (p. 56)
Born Bad (is this a story about Cory? I know... always picking on the black man!)
Elinita, Cards Palm and Water

3. How's that book report coming along? Due May 28th!

Objective: The students will analyze three poems that contain extended metaphors.

Get lit book and folder

1. CAT6
2. Notes
3. Analyze Poems (Poetry Packet Day 5)

Book Report??? How's it coming? Don't wait till the last minute.

Vignettes 3-4 due typed on Wednesday (Neighbor and Neighborhood)

Objective: The students will complete their second packet of vignettes. They will start writing their next two for their own "book."

1. Get books and folders
2. Go over the four read previously.
3. read Chanclas and Hips
4. Write the next two: One on a neighbor the other on your neighborhood

Objective: The students will work quietly to complete the reading and analysis of the next four vignettes.

1. CAT6 Activity
2. Vignettes:
page 33: Darius in the Clouds
page 35: And Some More
page 39: The Family of Little Feet
page 43: A Rice Sandwich

Note: If you are going tonight: Dress warm, bring money, blankie, cell phone, and be on time!! I will leave without you! Be good too.

Objective: The students will read four more vignettes and complete the analysis chart for each.

1. Share your original vignettes with another person. Make suggestions and edit.
2. Read the next four vignettes:
Marin (page 26)
Those Who Don't
There Was an Old Woman
Alice Who Sees Mice

3. Book Report Due: May 28.

Objective: The students will read and analyze a poem that uses figurative language.

Get lit book and folder.

1. CAT6
2. Notes
3. Read and analyze two poems.
4. Poetry assignment: Day 4
5. Continue working on Vignettes for your journal: Numbers 1 and 2 (Home and Name).

Book Report due May 28.

Objective: Students will read two more vignettes and complete their first two journal entries.

1. CAT6
2. Read aloud "Meme Ortiz" (p. 21) and "Louie, His Cousin and His Other Cousin" (p. 23)
3. Journal #1 and #2

Book Report Due on May 28th.

Objective: The students will discuss the author of House on Mango Street from the readings. Then they will read four vignettes from the book.

1. Get your folder and Mango books.
2. Discuss what the students know about the author.
3. Read Vignettes 1-4 (Cory, Ijeoma, Jordan, Audrey)
4. Complete Vignette Table 1-4

Objective: The students will know author information about Sandra Cisneros in preparation for reading House on Mango Street.

1. Get your District Writing Test from corrected folder.
2. Get the three handout pakets on Sandra Cisneros.
3. In any order that you choose, read the three Cisneros items.
4. Complete the following:

1. Active reading of each (10 highlights and comments/questions each)
2. Summary of each piece
3. Prediction: Based on readings, predict (in paragraph) what Mango Street will be about.
4. Author: In two paragraphs, discuss how you view author based on readings.

This is two days of work to be collected by sub tomorrow at the end of class.

Book Report: Last book due on May 21.

Objective: The students will pass the A PLace Where the Sea Remembers test.

1. Get symbol writing from folder.
2. Turn in APWTSR Review handout.
3. Get test. You can write on it.