Friday, 8/30 Syllabus
Join class on google classroom
Mango St. questions
Homework: Finish your section of Mango St. questions
Tuesday, 9/3 Go over Mango St. questions
Mango St. quiz
Soapstone article - agree? Mango St.?
Assign Seedfolks (due Friday)
Wednesday, 9/4 Figurative language work (10 minute video)
Thursday, 9/5 Optical Illusions
Go over synesthesia and work sheet/Mango St examples (block 4 needs to finish last page and do Mango St examples on google classroom)
Assign memoir
Homework: Finish Seedfolks and chart
Friday, 9/6 Figurative language quiz
Tuesday, 2/5 Roots work
Begin The House on Mango Street - read chapter 1, write journal entry #1: a
vignette about your home (google classroom)
Homework: Write/finish vignette about your home.
Home vignettes due (required)/present vignettes (optional)
Review similes and metaphors (3 minutes video), do online "quiz"
Read pp. 6-22, answer questions
Tuesday, 2/5 Hyperbole, allusion, allusion, alliteration
Personification review (3 minute video), do online "quiz"
"Firework"
Read pp. 26-34, finish questions
Homework: Finish through page 34, finish questions
Go over Mango St. questions (pp. 1-34)
Write 2 journal entries (#'s 2 & 3): (due Monday)
1. Your name - How did you get it? Do you like it? What name would you give yourself now?
2. Describe one the best days you remember from your childhood or more recent past. What happened? How did you feel? Was your day at all similar to Esperanza's good day? If so, how?
Read pp.35-55, answer questions. (due Monday)
Homework: Finish above - 2 journal entries, + pp.35-55 with questions