"My Name" from Sandra Cisneros' _The House on Mango Stree_t is full of beautiful and heart-wrenching figurative language and diction. All of these choices contribute to the tone and mood. The attached group activity provides students with 6 different quotes from the vignette. For each one, they have to identify and analyze the type of figurative language used, pull out specific words, and analyze how they contribute to the tone and mood of the piece.

Your whole class will work right in the same Google slideshow, with each small group editing their own page. Afterwards, students can peruse the other groups' analysis to further their understanding!

My students had a lot of success with this "Deep Dive" Group activity, and I hope yours do, too!

This is a partner or small group activity that will have students answering 15 questions related to Sandra Cisneros' use of figurative language/ poetic devices in The House on Mango Street.

The product contains 15 multiple questions. Each correct answer will direct students to the next question they should answer. The correct answers will lead the students to each of the 15 questions exactly once. Only by getting the correct answers will students be able to complete the circle trail successfully! THe beauty of this review is that it is SELF-CHECKING!

The questions are higher level ANALYSIS questions, NOT simple identification.

This product includes directions and a rubric for writing your own set of vignettes in the style of Sandra Cisneros! Perfect for distance learning, the assignment reviews the attributes of a vignette and provides the writer with questions to consider before they begin writing. Students are required to structure their vignettes around a theme, and incorporate a strong "voice", just like Cisneros. A comprehensive rubric is included for students to refer to as they work, and for you to use to easily grade the assignments.

My students loved this creative writing assignment, and I was blown away with the products they created. I used it during distance learning by posting the document on Google Classroom, and having my students write their vignettes in a Google Doc. It worked perfectly!

Thanks for looking, and please let me know if you have any questions!

Are you looking for an authentic, student-led final assessment for The House on Mango Street?

This resource contains two different packets of Socratic Seminar packets- packet A and packet B. Each packet contains three different discussion questions that require students to answer and provide two quotes from the text to back up their answers. Students are also required to come up with three additional questions they will ask if there’s time in their seminar. Finally, the packet has a page where each student will monitor a partner in the opposite circle. They will make a check each time their partner speaks, and paraphrase meaningful comments their partner makes. The file also contains a rubric for you to use while your students are discussing!

When you print out the file, you’ll see packet A on the top half of the sheet, packet B on the bottom half, and then the rubric as the last page of the file. Remove the rubric and print one out for each of your students. Copy the rest of the pages, cut them in half, and staple them. Each student will receive one half-sheet booklet; packet A or packet B.

Give your students adequate time to plan for their Seminar! I usually give them a full class period (40 minutes for me), but you could have them do it for homework, or over the course of a few days. The day of the Seminar, you’ll assign partners with opposite packets. Let A discuss for as long as they need (usually 25 to 30-ish minutes for me!), then flip-flop your circles and have B discuss afterwards.

My students LOVE Socratic Seminars! I have found the fishbowl discussion format works much better when you give each group three different questions so you don’t hear the same discussion two times, which is how this product is set up. I have used Socratic Seminars in small literature circle groups, as well as with the whole class at once. Please ask if you have questions!

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