University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Sandra Cisneros' Career
This essay offers a look at Cisneros' career and impact on American literature.
TESL Journal
The House on Mango Street: Experiencing Poetical Prose
What do you know about poetical prose? Experience this type of writing when you read "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros. This resource features wonderful interactive for all types of learners.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Investigating Names to Explore Personal History and Tradition
Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to write about their names and cultural traditions using Sandra Cisneros? "The House on Mango Street" as an example. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Get important details and analysis about the plot, characters, and themes of Sandra Cisneros's first novel, The House on Mango Street.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Prose Poetry Paragraphs
Inspired by the vignettes of Sandra Cisneros, students will write about a familiar thing from their lives. Students will use the style of prose poetry to describe something familiar around their home, school or neighborhood. The final...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: The House on Mango Street Wordlist & a Vocabulary Puzzle
This page offers a The House on Mango Street wordlist and a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary puzzle.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Guide to the House on Mango Street [Pdf]
A detailed and comprehensive mini-guide to Cisneros's novel "The House on Mango Street." Includes information about historical/biographical context, characters, study questions, chapter summaries, and post-reading activities.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Visualizing Memorable Details
Using the memoir The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros as a model, young scholars focus on the details of their lives like their name and where they are from to write memoirs.
TES Global
Blendspace: The House on Mango Street
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, websites, slides, and videos to use while reading Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: The House on Mango Street
Explore the Mexican-American culture by reading "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros. This novella is made up entirely of vignettes about teenage Latina, Esperanza Cordero, who struggles with her life in a Chicano and Puerto...
Curated OER
Sandra Cisneros. Credit: Ruben Guzman
Where does artistic inspiration come from? A series on NPR about the influence of artists on other artists helps to answer the question. Demonstrates that inspiration and innovation often flow from an intense appreciation of the work of...
Curated OER
Writingfix.com: Prose Poetry: The House on Mango Street
Front cover of the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "The House on Mango Street" Teacher Guide
Quite detailed, this teacher guide includes a number of discussion questions, background information, ideas for classroom presentation and a bit about the author.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child" by F. Jimenez
A collection of autobiographical short stories about a boy whose family moves from America to Mexico where they become migrant workers. Selected (6) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a...
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