10th Grade Community Forum Day!

Today we will will have guest speakers come in to talk about their role in the neighborhood. We are honored to have these guests!

• The goal of our Neighborhood Forum is to have community members engage with students in ways that will help them understand the following and more!

•History of how neighborhoods and communities evolve

•Socio-political models and social justice initiatives that have pushed communities forward and empowered residents

•How establishments such as health care systems, early education programs, and businesses provide services and interact with community stakeholders in ways that provide positive outcomes

•How individuals have been inspired to becoming driving forces in the community, and what that personal journey is like, including challenges and rewards.

Reading Day- Analyzing Character Development

In literature, authors frequently use characters and the situations they encounter to illuminate ideas, concepts, or messages they want their readers to think more deeply about. Often times, as characters experience certain events, they change over time. Remember that diction, or the words chosen by the author that create these tones - may also signify change in a character. The changes these characters go through ultimately help develop an emerging message or theme connected to the work.

Today we will analyze several vignettes, in preparation for a theme ACQCQC. We will look for emerging themes.

We will also be reading "The Monkey Garden" as we track Esperanza's changes.

• ELA 1.1 Apply Reading Stragegies
• ELA 1.3 Analyze Developments

You will be writing an ACQCCQC on a theme of your choosing, explaining how this theme is developed through Esperanza's point of view throughout the novel.

Possible Theme Topics:

• Home
  • As the book progresses, Esperanza becomes more adamant that she does not belong on Mango Street. She has always been critical of the house where she lives but has become even more determined to leave. She has seen the way that people’s lives have been limited by class, gender, location, and race, and she feels certain that she cannot be limited by those things.
  • The change in Esperanza’s perspective is subtle only because it hasn’t changed exactly—it’s become more intense.
• Gender Roles
  • How do gender expectations and roles shape Esperanza’s experience of her neighborhood and the world in general?
• Neighborhood
  • How does Esperanza’s neighborhood shape who she becomes?
• Immigration
  • How does Esperanza’s Latina identity (and her identity as a second-generation immigrant to the United States) shape her experience of the world and her understanding of her place in it?
• American Dream
  • In what ways does Esperanza’s experience reflect parts of a more universal “American experience?”