House on Mango Street 84-98

August 21, 2019

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

W.9-10.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

W.9-10.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

Obj: I can create narratives using figurative language.

I can write arguments to support claims about the big idea. 

Starter: 

Fall 2019 Songs

Who Says You Can't Go Home- Bon Jovi

Connect the ideas of the song to the ideas in House on Mango Street.

Vocabulary: 

Word: Idiom

Part of Speech: Noun

Dictionary Definition: a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

Your Definition: 

Activity: Create your own example of an idiom. 

Activity: 

1.    TPEQEA Introduction 

TPEQEA Prezi 

Individually, take Cornell notes on the TPEQEA prezi.

Next week, you will be writing your own.

As a class we will write a TPEQEA together in response to the prompt below: 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hires you as a consultant to determine how best to use $20 billion to save the world. What’s your plan?

Model TPEQEA we created as a class. 

2.   Save the Last Word For Me

You will read through pages 84-98 in groups of three.  

Once you are done reading find a quote that you found interesting.

Write the quote down and then write a few sentences explaining why you chose that quote—what it meant to you, reminded you of, etc. You may have connect it to something that happened to you in your own life, to a film or book they saw or read, or to something that happened in history or is happening in current events.

Divide the students into groups of three, labeling one student A, one B, and the other C in each group. Invite the A students to read one of their chosen quotations to their group. Then students B and C discuss the quotation. What do they think it means? Why do they think these words might be important? To whom? After several minutes, ask the A students to read the back of their card (or to explain why they picked the quotation), thus having “the last word.” This process continues with the B students sharing and then the C students.

3.  TPEQEA Prompt

In a TPEQEA paragraph, respond to the prompt: 

How does environment shape identity in House on Mango Street?

Make sure to support your ideas with textual evidence.

Your evidence may come from any part of the book. 

A rough draft is due tomorrow for peer editing. 

Closure: 

Reflect on your paragraph.

Give yourself a plus (strength) and a delta (area of improvement).