APillionaries—Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
· The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
When
You Come In
1.
Sign
in.
2.
Put
your name at the top of page 15, and put it on the heater.
Class
Discussion and Trios (25-ish
minutes)
1.
Compare
your notes from all the following pages.
Borrow from each other, page until everyone in the trio has all the
blanks on all the pages filled in:
a.
8-9 Motifs Completely filled out
b.
11,
12, 13 Style Elements Completely filled out
·
NOTE:
You do NOT have to have five senses; just one example will do.
2.
Let
me hear your best academic discussion.
3.
Start
@ 1:58; ending @ 2:25
Partner
Discussion (Three-Five Minutes)
Prep for Whole-Class
Discussion—your partner can help you clarify your thinking, so you don’t jump
the tracks during our class discussion
1.
Grab
your page 15 off the heater.
2.
Open
your book to “The Red Clowns”, pages 99-100
3.
Page
15 in your packet
4.
What
is EXPLICIT? What is IMPLICIT?
Started @ 2:29
“Red Clowns” (List all your questions first.)
1.
What
actually happened to Esperanza? She was raped, probably.
a.
“Where he touched me, I didn’t want it
Sally.”
b.
“The
way they said it, they way it’s supposed to be.”
c.
“It
wasn’t what you said at all, what he did.”
d.
“He
said, ‘I love you Spanish girl,’ and pressed his sour mouth to mine.”
e.
“…only
his dirty fingernails against my skin, only his sour smell again.”
f.
“He
wouldn’t let me go.”
g.
“I
waited my whole life….” (to lose her
virginity)
2.
What
was with the clowns? Significance? What is the meaning?
3.
What
else is disturbing?
a.
It’s
in public.
b.
“I
love you Spanish girl.” (racial)
c.
Sally
abandoned her with another guy for a long time.
She should have known E. might have been hurt. Sally knows more than E.
d.
“Their high black gym
shoes ran.”
e.
Age
f.
No
one helped her
g.
virginity
Big Questions
What’s up with the color red?
Balloon
Dress for the baptism
Furniture and stuffed bear
Clowns
Sally: “It’s not true”, E. says. But is it?
Discuss.
What’s with the color green? (Geraldo’s pants; perfume; green grass
stains; )
Other colors repeated? Yellow?
White?
Minimalistic Style?
Lack of quotations
Simple sentences
Maximalistic Style?
Vivid description
Non-linear
Fabulist?
Lucy and Rachel—what happened to
them? Did the cloud chapter destroy
them? J
Motifs
1.
houses
2.
innocence
3.
longing to be older
4.
cycles
5.
creepy older men
6.
abuse
7.
insecurity
8.
five dollars
9.
beauty
10.
friendship
11.
dreams
12.
crime
13.
clowns
14.
death
15.
shoes
16.
fathers and father-figures
17.
singin and dancing
18.
entrapment/imprisonment (women not
leaving the house)
19.
religion
20. returning
21.
names
22. racism
23. anger
24. poverty
25. boys
26. filth
27. maturity
28. science
29. moving
30. growing up
31.
clouds
32. fortune-tellers/witches/psychics
33. freedom
34. family
35. nostalgia
Homework = Take-Home Quiz, Page 65- end
of novel
1.
You may use your annotations. Make sure your answers reflect this.
2.
You may not use any other people or
resources of any kind.
3.
It is due at 1:50 tomorrow.
Finish
the following pages:
a.
8-9 Motifs Completely filled out
b.
11, 12, 13 Style Elements Completely
filled out
·
NOTE: You do NOT have to have five senses; just one
example will do.
Creative Writing--Wednesday,
October 23rd 2013
When You Come In
1.
Sign in.
2.
Grab your manila folder off the circle table.
3.
You will find your
Musical Memories on your desk—thanks, Maribelle!
Focus
for Today
1.
Revision
2.
Portfolio
Portfolio
Ø Where
can you find all information about the portfolio?
Ø Two papers due tomorrow WITH your
project
o Handout = Self-Evaluation
o Reflection (typed, single-spaced, one
page)
Revision Preparation (Ten Percent of Entire Term Grade)
1. Get out the following:
a. pink revision direction sheet--re-read the requirements and
expectations. You are responsible for
that information.
b. ORANGE SHEET--look at the FOUR pieces you are revising for a
grade.
Note
about the Musical Memory
Ø Time has run out on us for
revising that.
Ø If you want to use it in
your portfolio, you can REVISE it as one of your four revisions!
Ø Or, if it’s good shape, you
can edit it and put it in the portfolio.
CPR—Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
The
House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
When
You Come In
1.
Sign
in.
2.
Put
your name at the top of your quiz, then put it on the heater.
Class
Discussion and Trios (25
minutes)
1.
Compare
your notes from all the following pages.
Borrow from each other, page until everyone in the trio has all the
blanks on all the pages filled in:
a.
8-9 Motifs Completely filled out
b.
11,
12, 13 Style Elements Completely filled out
2.
Let
me hear your best academic discussion.
3.
8:14-8:40
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