HOMS 3.2

HOMS 3.2

Do Now: Review your vocab flashcards for 10 minutes.

Objectives:

• demonstrate mastery of vocabulary words
• select effective pieces of evidence to support a topic sentence

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Vocab quiz

3) ORB
4) Continue to work on HOMS Cinderella Paragraph assignment

5) Summarizer

HW: Finish selecting evidence for paragraphs

HOMS 3.1

Do Now: What does it mean to be empowered?  How does Esperanza turn discouragement into empowerment?

Objectives:

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Flash cards for vocab quiz

3) Review Cinderella archetype-- discuss paragraph assignment, complete charts

3) Introduce the vignette creative writing assignment

4) Summarizer: Use two vocab words in a sentence.

HW: Vocab quiz on WEDNESDAY

HOMS 2.4

HOMS 2.4

Do Now: In pairs, complete the "Women on Mango Street" chart in NOTABILITY

Objectives:

• to use the six habits to make inferences about life for women on Mango Street

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) In pairs, find one quote for each question

• In what ways does Esperanza seem to admire Sally?
• Esperanza says that people talk about Sally. What do you infer about the kinds of things they say?
• How are Sally and Esperanza both similar and different?

3) Class: Present answers to questions

4) Summarizer: How do you predict Sally’s life will end up? Why?

HW: Read and annotate “Bums in the Attic,” “The Three Sisters,” Alicia & I Talking,” “A House of My Own,” “Mango says Goodbye Sometimes”

HOMS 2.3

HOMS 2.3

Do Now: Esperanza says, "I am an ugly daughter. I am the one nobody comes for" (88).  What is this an allusion to?

Objectives:

• To use the six habits to identify how and why Cisneros uses the cinderella archetype in HOMS
• to identify quotes that illustrate aspects of Esperanza’s character

Agenda:

1) Do Now
2) Vocab and ORB

3) In the movies there is always one with red red lips who is beautiful and cruel... Her power is her own. She will not give it away.

4) In pairs, answering the following question:

• Based on what she says in “Beautiful & Cruel,” which of the following does Esperanza see in her future?
• A. She will wait for a Prince Charming type of man to come and rescue her from Mango Street.
• B. Instead of waiting, she will go out and choose her own Prince Charming, like her sister, Nenny.
• C. She won’t bother with Prince Charming at all. She will rescue herself.

5) In pairs, complete the House on Mango Street Focus Chart for “The First Job,” “Four Skinny Trees,” and “Beautiful and Cruel”

6) Summarizer: How and why does Esperanza personify the trees?

HW: Read and annotate “Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut…,” “Sally,” “Minerva Writes Poems, “A Smart Cookie,” and “What Sally Said”

HOMS 2.2

HOMS 2.2

Do Now: How is coming of age sometimes frightening or discouraging?

Objectives:

• To identify the characteristics of the Cinderella archetype
• To use the six habits to identify how and why Cisneros uses the cinderella archetype in HOMS

Agenda:

1) Vocab
2) ORB

3) What is life like for the main character at the beginning of these stories? What are they all hoping for?How do these stories always end?

4) In pairs, discuss the following question: Are these stories and their endings realistic? Does real life work this way?

5) Review "The Family of Little Feet"

6) In notability, answer the following questions

• How does this story imitate the Cinderella story, especially in the beginning? Find a quotation.
• How does Cisneros change the ending? Find a quotation.
• Why do you think she did this? What point might she be trying to make?

7) Think-Pair-Share answers

8) Summarizer:  Why do you think Cisneros (the author) chose to imitate and then change the Cinderella story in "The Family of Little Feet"? What point might she be trying to make about fairy tales and/or real life?

HW: Reread “The First Job,” “Four Skinny Trees,” and “Beautiful and Cruel”

HOMS 2.1

HOMS 2.1

Do Now: What are some of the signs that Esperanza is growing up or coming of age?

Objectives:

• to use the six habits in order to make inferences about Esperanza’s coming of age
• to identify quotes that illustrate aspects of Esperanza’s character

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Outside Reading Book

3) import the “House on Mango Street Focus Chart” into notability

4) In pairs, complete the “House on Mango Street Focus Chart” for “Hips” and “Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water”

5) Class: share chart findings

6) Summarizer: Identify at least one new inference you made regarding Esperanza’s character

HW: Read and annotate“The Family of Little Feet,” “The First Job,” “Sire,” “Four Skinny Trees,” Beautiful and Cruel”

Weekly Assignment Sheet

Due in class on:	YELLOW	ORANGE
Monday	Get caught up on all annotations from previous week	Get caught up on all annotations from previous week
Tuesday	Read and annotate“The Family of Little Feet,” “The First Job,” “Sire,” “Four Skinny Trees,” Beautiful and Cruel”	DROP
Wednesday	Reread “The First Job,” “Four Skinny Trees,” and “Beautiful and Cruel”	Read and annotate“The Family of Little Feet,” “The First Job,” “Sire,” “Four Skinny Trees,” Beautiful and Cruel”
Thursday	Read and annotate “Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut…,” “Sally,” “Minerva Writes Poems, “A Smart Cookie,” and “What Sally Said”	Reread “The First Job,” “Four Skinny Trees,” and “Beautiful and Cruel”
Friday	DROP	Read and annotate “Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut…,” “Sally,” “Minerva Writes Poems, “A Smart Cookie,” and “What Sally Said”

HOMS 1.4

HOMS 1.4

Do Now: Brainstorm some qualities you think the WOMEN and MEN on Mango Street might have (Make a two column brainstorm in Notability)

Today's Objectives:

• identify types and make inferences about imagery and figurative language
• make inferences about how and why authors use archetypes to change familiar patterns

Agenda:

1) Do Now/Share

2) ORB
3) Vocab #2
4) Review Vignette assignment: focus on making inferences

5) "Louie, His Cousin, and His Other Cousin," "The Earl of Tennessee"-- Read aloud and make inferences

6) Practice Six Habits in Notability: Vignette assignment three (3 annotations PER vignette)

• "Marin"
• "A Rice Sandwich"
• "Chanclas"
• "Hips"
• "Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water"

6) Summarizer: These stories are composed of Esperanza's observations about her neighborhood.  How do you think she feels about her future/growing up on Mango Street?

Homework: Finish reading and annotating Vignette Assignment three

HOMS 1.3

HOMS 1.3

Do Now: In pairs, identify at least two of the unit's literary devices in last night's reading assignment.

Today's Objectives:

• use the six habits of successful readers to annotate a text
• identify types and make inferences about imagery and figurative language

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Review Do Now

3) Discuss homework and practice Six Habits in Notability for HOMS vignette assignment two (in notability)

• "Louie, His Cousin, & His Other Cousin"
• "Those Who Don't"
• "There was an Old Woman..."
• "Alicia Who Sees Mice"
• "The Earl of Tennessee"

You should have THREE annotations per vignette.

5) Summarizer: What are the gender roles in the Cinderella archetype?  What are the expectations of women?  Of men?

Homework: Finish reading and annotating vignette assignment two.

HOMS 1.2

House on Mango Street 1.2

Do Now: Was it difficult to annotate using the Six Habits? Why/why not?

Today's Objectives:

• use the six habits of successful readers to annotate a text
• identify types and make inferences about imagery and figurative language

Agenda:

1) Do Now
2) Complete Vocab week one (YELLOW ONLY)
3) Go to library and select ORB (YELLOW ONLY)
4) Read silently for 15 minutes (YELLOW ONLY)

5) Review annotation homework

6) Define literary devices: imagery, personification, metaphor, simile, archetypes

7) Read and annotate (using six habits) the first set of vignettes from House on Mango Street (in notability)

• "The House on Mango Street"
• "Hairs"
• "Boys and Girls"
• "My Name"
• "Our Good Day"

5) Summarizer: Pick one literary device we covered today and create a sentence utilizing the device correctly.

Homework: Finish annotating the first set of vignettes

Weekly Assignment Sheet

Due in class on:	YELLOW	ORANGE
M 9/15	Rubrics for Summer reading Books	Annotated “Eleven”
T 9/16	Annotated “Eleven”	DROP
W 9/17	Finish annotating the first set of vignettes	Finish annotating the first set of vignettes
TH 9/18	Finish reading and annotating vignette assignment two.	Finish reading and annotating vignette assignment two.
F 9/19	DROP	Finish reading and annotating Vignette Assignment three

HOMS 1.1

Do now: Create two new dividers in your English notability folder: Literary Terms and House on Mango Street

Objectives:

• use the six habits of successful readers to annotate a text
• identify common morphemes in vocabulary words

Agenda:

1. Do now

2) Introduce House on Mango Street unit/ Review the Six Habits of Successful Readers

3) Practice Six Habits in Notability

4) Summarizer: Why is it helpful to use the six habits of successful readers?

Homework: Finish annotating "Eleven"

Archetypes 1.4

Archetypes 1.4

Do now:

Objectives:

• use the six habits of successful readers to annotate a text
• identify common morphemes in vocabulary words

Agenda:

1. Do now

2) Introduce House on Mango Street unit/ Review the Six Habits of Successful Readers

3) Practice Six Habits in Notability

4) Summarizer: Why is it helpful to use the six habits of successful readers?

Homework: Finish annotating "Eleven"

Archetype 1.3

Archetype 1.3

Do now: spend 5 minutes reviewing for summer reading quiz

Objectives:

• demonstrate reading comprehension of summer reading book
• evaluate groups’ book creator book

Agenda:

1. do now

2. summer reading quiz

3. finish summer reading book creator book

4. upload book creator book and share with Ms. Santiago

5. Read at least one of your peer's ebooks on the summer reading (found in the post below). Using the rubric, complete the peer evaluation form found here.

6. Summarizer

HW: Finish evaluating group’s book creator books