Miss+Glynn's+10th+grade+English

[[file:American Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism.ppt]]American Literature


**10th Grade American Literature Resources**

[[file:English 10 Honors.doc]]
American Literature - The Beginnings Power Point

American Modernism

American, Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism

Colonial Period

The Crucible Intro.

The Grapes of Wrath Power Point

A Way To Teach Resources: [|www.awaytoteach.net]

or: =The House on Mango Street=

[|The House on Mango Street - An Illuminated Text example]
A short example, appropriate for demonstration -- showing students how and what an illuminated text is, using //The House on Mango Street//. It focuses on what Esperanza sees herself as and what she wants to become. [|**Read more**]
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[|The House on Mango Street Group Work #2 - Through Page 65]
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 * From first job to her aunt's advice about writing and all the connections in-between that a close-reading can muster.

[|"House" an Illuminated Text by Norberto Rivera and Danny Chan]
This project by Norberto Rivera and Danny Chan is an inspired look at pieces of the text and Esperanza's search for her perfect house. [|**Read more**]
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[|"Let Go" - A House on Mango Street Illuminated Text by Nadia Arellano and Susan Cheng]
This presentation begins with the girls receiving the "too old" high shoes and explores the garden and the carnival that mark Esperanza's journey through innocence and loss. [|**Read more**]
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[|Gil's Furniture - A House on Mango Street Illuminated Text by Laura Nelson and Christina Wang]
This impossibly intricate and detailed presentation examines Esperanza's encounter with the "junk store," and its echoes and implications in the rest of her life. [|**Read more**]
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[|Betrayal and Red Clowns - A House on Mango Street Illuminated Text by Saquina Haque, Beata Kasiarz, and Michael Hernandez]
This illuminated text pushes the envelope of textual animation (as well as the viewer's emotions) as it pulls together the many times that Esperanza is betrayed by those around her as she seeks that ideal home that proves more and more elusive. [|**Read more**]
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[|Eclipse - A House on Mango Street Illuminated Text by Jessica Kitteridge and Jackie Roman]
A presentation that focuses on Esperanza's (and all women's) falling under the shadow of men. The words, the spare use of images, and the powerful music all contribute to a powerful, evocative indictment -- that leaves a lasting impression. [|**Read more**]
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[|The House on Mango Street - The first paragraph and Stephen Booth moments.]
This handout helps students concentrate on the rich word textures (Stephen Booth moments) found in Cisneros' work. Rather than concentrating on the meaning of the text; the text itself is looked at. [|**Read more**]
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[|The House on Mango Street - Group Work #1 - through page 32]
An introductory group work that among other things helps students identify (through a close reading) the "house" that Esperanza is looking for. It also brings in some fairly complex (and critical-thinking worthy ideas), including the idea that though Esperanza scorns those who want to get out of her neighborhood -- she does too. I have the lyrics to Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car," for the kids to consider while they're looking at the lines about the girls riding their bike -- going faster and faster, hoping to escape into something better. [|**Read more**]
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[|"Sally" an Illuminated Text by Marjorie Easley and Denisha Brown]
This poem examines the pain that Sally, from //The House on Mango Street//, feels from without as well as from within. [|**Read more**]
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[|House on Mango Street - In-class Essay]
[|Essay.] Students are given a choice of four prompts on //The House on Mango Street//, ranging from the definition of Esperanza's house to the notion of the novel being "anti-male." Each answer requires specifics from the text to support the student's answer.
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[|No Speak English: A House on Mango Street Illuminated Text.]
This Illluminated Text by David Cordova and Sid Menon tackles one idea from one chapter in Sandra Cisneros' //The House on Mango Street.// That idea is really a character - the woman who comes from Mexico and cries because she doesn't want to see her children becoming culturally assimilated. It is one of the most moving moments in the book -- and it is handled with sensitivity and creativity by the students. In many ways, I consider Illuminated Texts to be the essay equivalent on the web rather than what many would see as blogs. The students must find a focus, a thesis, and then unlike blogs put those thoughts into a very technological framework. [|**Read more**]
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[|The House on Mango Street - Some opening (house) song lyrics]
[|Content]. Some lyrics to some songs about houses -- along with the opening paragraph assignment -- this helps set the tone for the student (class) reading of the novel.
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[|The House on Mango Street - Some songs of innocence]
[|Content]. Some songs used on the last day of discussion to help "wrap" up our thoughts on house, home, and innocence.
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[|Group Work #3 - through the end of the book]
The last group work for this novel -- it tries, in dramatic fashion, to have the students discover for themselves just what the "house" that Esperanza seeks really is, through a close reading of the text. >>> ]]
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