House on Mango Street: Intro

The following links demonstrate how complete understanding was obtained for House on Mango Street. The students had a very difficult time comprehending the vignette collection because they had never read a piece that did not follow the the typical structure of a novel. For this reason, a lot of explaining and analysis of the vignettes was done together.

The first link demonstrates how students were analyze the vignettes read on their own to ensure that comprehension was taking place. the students were very able to have discussions and make connections as a class with simple prompting questions from me; however, it was very difficult for them to grasp meaning on their own. This worksheet allowed the students to break the vignette down and look for connections and meaning on their own.

The second link helped the students identify and analyze the figurative language that was present at any given time while reading the piece. the students liked this because it acted as a nice guide for understanding the concept of figurative language which they were able to go back and look at when they were required to write their own vignettes.

The third and last link here was used to allow the students some time practicing their own use of figurative language. The students were to describe places or situations using only metaphors, similes imagery and personification. At first, students really struggled with it; however, once they figured out that we were trying to describe the event or place without using "the house is red", they came up with some wonderful things.