The House on Mango Street
Each chapter of The House on Mango Street is called a what?
vignette
What are some examples of what counts as strong evidence?
Strong evidence includes:
True or False?
A personal essay should show as many diverse perspectives as possible to maintain an objective voice.
False
Define a stanza in poetry
A block or paragraph made up of lines of poetry
Create a thesis statement following the thesis formula for the prompt below:
Should college entrance system in Korea be changed to value standardized testing (CSAT) less?
debate topic + position + because + supporting reason 1 + supporting reason 2
What is the difference between a simile and metaphor?
simile = like/as to compare
metaphor = something IS something else
What are the main roles of the introduction paragraph (what should the introduction do/contain)?
A hook, background information, and a thesis statement
What does human ken mean in the passage below?
It drinks a hundred gallons of milk from its mama every day and gains two hundred pounds a day, and when it is seven or eight years old it endures an unimaginable puberty and then it essentially disappears from human ken, for next to nothing is known of the the mating habits, travel patterns, diet, social life, language, social structure, diseases, spirituality, wars, stories, despairs and arts of the blue whale.
Human perception/knowledge of the blue whales
What is the name of the type of meter popularized by Shakespeare in his sonnets and plays?
Iambic pentameter
Write a line that end rhymes with the following line. The line should complete a single thought:
A blue bird flew into the night.
_______________________.
Answers will vary.
Rhyming words: light, bright, sight, right, white, delight, tonight
Fill in the blank:
In The House on Mango Street, Esperanza (the narrator) wants to have a _____ of her own.
House
What are the 4 main key components of an argumentative essay?
Thesis, evidence, reasoning, counterargument
Summarize the structure of the essay "Joyas Voladoras" by Brian Doyle
Answers will vary
What is it called when a line in poetry ends with a punctuation mark?
End stop
Translate the following sentence from "수필" by 피천득 into English. Do you agree with his statement about the essay? Explain why or why not based on your personal experience reading and writing essays.
수필은 마음의 산책(散策)이다. 그 속에는 인생의 향취와 여운이 숨어 있는 것이다.
여운 = lingering imagery
Answers will vary
Name as many themes from The House on Mango Street as possible!
immigration, multiculturalism, feminism, gender roles, class, race, coming of age, etc.
What are the main roles of the conclusion paragraph (what should the conclusion do/contain)?
restate the thesis, summarize the main points, and give a final thought or reflection
How would you summarize this quote from Michel de Montaigne's essay "On Solitude" in simple, non-metaphorical language?
"Within it our normal conversation should be of ourselves, with ourselves, so privy that no commerce or communication with the outside world should find a place there; there we should talk and laugh as though we had no wife, no children, no possessions, no followers, no menservants, so that when the occasion arises that we must lose them it should not be a new experience to do without them."
Example: We should have a self-sufficient sense of privacy and satisfaction. We should have a space where we can exist in solitude comfortably, in case we love our loved ones or comforts.
How is prose poetry different from traditional poetry?
A prose poem appears as a block of text without line breaks
Write a three line poem with enjambment and at least one internal rhyme. Your topic should be on how you feel about school.
enjambment - poem continues from one line to the next
internal rhyme - two words inside the same line rhyme
What does playing chicken mean in the excerpt below?
But after a while you get tired of being worried about kids who aren't even yours. One day they are playing chicken on Mr. Benny's roof. Mr. Benny says, Hey ain't you kids know better than to be swinging up0 there? Come down, you come down right now, and then they just spit.
to wait until the last possible moment to get out of the way of something dangerous, especially as part of a game to show how brave you are
What does CER stand for in the body paragraphs (what is the body paragraph format)?
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
What was the motto of philosopher Michel de Montaigne's that exemplifies his philosophical skepticism?
"What do I know?"
Identify at least 3 themes in the poem “Butchering” by Rhina P. Espaillat:
My mother’s mother, toughened by the farm,
hardened by infants’ burials, used a knife
and swung an axe as if her woman’s arm
wielded a man’s hard will. Inured to life
and death alike, “What ails you now?” she’d say
ungently to the sick. She fed them, too,
roughly but well, and took the blood away—
and washed the dead, if there was that to do.
She told us children how the cows could sense
when their own calves were marked for butchering,
and how they lowed, their wordless eloquence
impossible to still with anything—
sweet clover, or her unremitting care.
She told it simply, but she faltered there.
Answers will vary.
Examples: parenthood, cruelty, poverty, interspecies relationships
Those Who Don't
Those who don't know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we're dangerous.
They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake.
But we aren't afraid. (...)
All brown all around, we are safe. But watch us drive into a neighborhood of another color and our knees go shakity-shake and out car windows get rolled up tight and our eyes look straight. Yeah. That's how it goes and goes.
Choose a quote from the excerpt and write a paragraph of literary analysis (in the form of a quote sandwich) in which you explain what the quote reveals about the immigrant experience, multiculturalism, or bilingualism.
Quote sandwich:
- introduce the quote
- provide the quote
- analyze the quote