"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!