House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - Audiobook available in the CHS library.

Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

• "Race Politics" by Luis Rodriguez
• "If" by Rudyard Kipling
• "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
• "There Was a Child Went Forth" by Walt Whitman
• "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick
• "Fifteen" by Leslie Monsour
• "Anne Frank" by Sheryl Helms
• "Oranges" by Gary Soto
• "In the Ghetto" by Elvis Presley Video (live performance)

Short Fiction (choose 1 or 2)

• "The Flowers" by Alice Walker
• "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
• "The Voice from the Wall" excerpt from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan - Full book Available in the CHS library
• Excerpts from Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - Available in the CHS library

Multimedia

• "Stand by Me" (film) - Available in the CHS library
• "Freedom Writers" (film) - Available in the CHS library

Historical Nonfiction (required)

• "Mr. Secrets" by Richard Rodriguez, excerpt from Hunger of Memory

Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1)

• "Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today"
• What's the Problem with 'Hispanic'? Just ask a 'Latino' from The New York Times

The library also recommends:

Documentaries and Movies:

• "Doubletime" documentary about competitive double-dutch jumprope
• Latino Americans PBS documentary series about the Latino American experience (episodes 5 and 6 focus on the 20th century)
• "Walkout" Movie about high school students during the Chicano rights movement
• "Ruben Salazar" PBS documentary about a journalist during the Chicano rights movement
• "The Outsiders"

Articles:

• The House on Mango Street from Novels for Students
• The House on Mango Street from Literature and Its Times
• Sandra Cisneros from Major 21st Century Writers