10th Grade House on Mango Street
Summer Reading Assignment Name: _____Arushi Gupta_____
10th Grade The House on Mango Street
Before returning to school next school year, you will need to read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and complete this assignment. This organizer is intended to guide your reading and focus your thoughts in preparation for the discussions, summer reading quiz and writing assignments you will engage in when you return in September.
By carefully completing this assignment over the summer, you will be prepared to discuss the story in the fall, to take a summer reading quiz and to write an in-class essay using your book and packet as the basis for your responses.
A TYPED hard copy of this packet must be submitted to your teacher on the first day of school.
SECTION 1: Setting
Instructions: Esperanza’s reactions to her physical environment often reveal aspects of her character. Choose three large or small elements of Esperanza’s physical environment (e.g., houses, neighborhoods, city, school, trees, concrete, windows) and trace them as they repeat throughout the novel. In the first column, write the quotations (with their page numbers) that describe your selected elements. In the second column, write a short analysis that explores Esperanza’s reaction to the element.
Physical Element One: _____houses______
Concrete Detail and Page Number
1. “The house on Mango street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get,” (3).
2. “Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is swollen you have to push hard to get in,” (4).
3. “The third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out,” (5).
Please discuss Esperanza’s overall reaction to the element:
Esperanza is relieved that her family
10th Grade The House on Mango Street
Before returning to school next school year, you will need to read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and complete this assignment. This organizer is intended to guide your reading and focus your thoughts in preparation for the discussions, summer reading quiz and writing assignments you will engage in when you return in September.
By carefully completing this assignment over the summer, you will be prepared to discuss the story in the fall, to take a summer reading quiz and to write an in-class essay using your book and packet as the basis for your responses.
A TYPED hard copy of this packet must be submitted to your teacher on the first day of school.
SECTION 1: Setting
Instructions: Esperanza’s reactions to her physical environment often reveal aspects of her character. Choose three large or small elements of Esperanza’s physical environment (e.g., houses, neighborhoods, city, school, trees, concrete, windows) and trace them as they repeat throughout the novel. In the first column, write the quotations (with their page numbers) that describe your selected elements. In the second column, write a short analysis that explores Esperanza’s reaction to the element.
Physical Element One: _____houses______
Concrete Detail and Page Number
1. “The house on Mango street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make too much noise, and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get,” (3).
2. “Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is swollen you have to push hard to get in,” (4).
3. “The third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out,” (5).
Please discuss Esperanza’s overall reaction to the element:
Esperanza is relieved that her family