Young scholars complete a literary analysis lesson for House on Mango Streetby Sandra Cisneros. In this literary analysis lesson, students read and discuss the assigned chapters and complete an open mind diagram. Young scholars write a...

Young scholars read The House on Mango Street and analyze why the author chose to tell this story and how the characters are affected by immigration, poverty, and discrimination. Students compare this story to others about immigration...

Students discuss identity and what they consider their identities to be.  In this The House on Mango Street lesson, students participate in a pre-reading activity before reading The House on Mango Street.  Students preview the...

Sixth graders explore how people throughout time have responded to questions regarding identity. For this The House on Mango Street instructional activity, 6th graders create an identity chart for a fictional character and then write...

Young scholars compare varying family structures. For this family structures lesson, students write a book about their family. Young scholars read The House on Mango Street.

Students create a list of characteristics for the heroine of a fairy tale and discuss ways these images affect behavior and self-esteem.  For this, The House on Mango Street gender equity lesson, students identify common...

Young scholars complete readingactiviteis for Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street. In this House on Mango Street lesson, students complete pre-reading and close reading activities for vignettes from the text. Young scholars...

Pupils study the House on Mango Street.

Discover how writers express identity in their writing. Learners explore how issues of identity surface in the literature of minority writers. Scholars watch a video, read and discuss biographies, conduct research, engage in creative...

The stories of the Silver People, the West Indies immigrants hired to work on the Panama Canal, come to life in a lesson about the building of the Panama Canal. Groups research why the canal was built, how it was build, the working...

After reading Sandra Cisneros’ novel The House on Mango Street, class members design a canned food drive, create advertisements for the drive, and use digital cameras to document the entire process. In addition, pupils journal their...

The stories in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street form the basis for a instructional activity on plot elements. The class examines introduction, sequence, problem, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution and...

Young scholars identify the different types of letters. They identify the parts of a letters. Students write a letter using a letter format. They write a letter using the Letter Wizard in Word. Young scholars review Smart Cookie from...

Stories from Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street provide sixth graders with an opporltunity to identify the elements of a short story. After several modeling exercises, readers use the provided worksheet to recording information...

Pupils read an except form, "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, as a prompt for a family discussion about the history of their name. They use this discussion to express their personality by creating a Power Point slide show...

Studying the history, influences, and cognates of the English language, this presentation provides students in linguistics and language classes with several charts of information on cognates from languages around the world. The slideshow...

Students examine the changing view of women during the 20th century. Using art, literature and music, they identify the various perceptions used throughout history. They also predict what women's' perceptions are going to be in the next...

Work on characterization with a narrative writing instructional activity, in which middle schoolers interpret a character's perspective. They discuss family traditions and examine how culture can influence a character's perspective....

Students read literature and view other media to discover how print and non-print texts answer the thematic question: Who am I? students compare the ways ideas are presented, and create their own portfolios or personal Web pages...

Students identify characteristics common to heroines in a fairy tale and list ways images affect males and females.  In this gender bias lesson, students see an adapted version of "Cinderella" and write a journal response. ...

Middle schoolers discuss how writing is an important historical tool. They read writings from individuals and note how they have preserved history. They describe what those stories say about the communites they came from.

In this Sandra Cisneros worksheet, students read about Sandra Cisneros, read quotes she said, and write self discipline vocabulary next to the quotes. Students read 10 quotes.