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.

This page offers a The House on Mango Street wordlist and a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary puzzle.

Told through a series of vignettes, Esperanza Cordero narrates her life growing up as a Latina girl in a Chicago neighborhood, and her desire to grow up and leave. Selected (8) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "The House on...

A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, websites, slides, and videos to use while reading Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.

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.

This is a complete online study guide/notes for the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

Explore the life and writing of Sandra Cisneros at this website, which provides different approaches to reading and studying Cisneros' works. Included are pictures and several references and links for further reading and research.

Get important details and analysis about the plot, characters, and themes of Sandra Cisneros's first novel, 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...

Explore this site featuring links to biographical information related to the life and work of Sandra Cisneros. This resource also provides links to lesson plans and activities for "The House on Mango Street."

Quite detailed, this teacher guide includes a number of discussion questions, background information, ideas for classroom presentation and a bit about the author.

Internationally recognized writer Sandra Cisneros is best known for "The House on Mango Street," which has sold over six million copies.

Front cover of the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.

Something seems familiar here: Students learn how allusion invites more into a text. Using "The House On Mango Street" students will learn about allusion by paralleling events from both the Bible and from Greek mythology.

Contains plans for six lessons that ask young scholars 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...

Using the memoir The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros as a model, learners focus on the details of their lives like their name and where they are from to write memoirs.

Sandra Cisneros is featured for her literary prose, drawing on her personal heritage as a Chicana to exhibit her "Americanness" in order to share hope for other minority women. See "Sandra Cisneros Activities" for related materials.

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...

This essay offers a look at Cisneros' career and impact on American literature.