Assignments Due Week of April 12

April 12 & 14
Date Work Due

Monday - 4/12

Read House on Mango Street pages 23-45 and answer questions (questions pasted below)

Read in textbook: A Homemade Education pages 625-628. Answer Check your Comprehension 1-4 and Read Critically 1-5.

Inference Packet: read the entire packet and do all activities

Make flashcards with these words with the definition and sentence on back … Bring to class
a. Allotment
b. Inevitably
c. Conundrum
d. Succumb to
e. Solace
f. Accordingly


Wednesday 4/14
Vocabulary Quiz on all words:
1. Self-preservation (p 36)
2. Lucidity (p 36)
3. Oppressive (p 38)
4. Harangued (p 38)
5. Eluded (p 41)
6. Imprudent (p. 54)
7. Untenable (p. 56)
8. Dissipated (p. 60)
9. Surreal (p. 68)
10. Void
11. Ironic
a. Allotment
b. Inevitably
c. Conundrum
d. Succumb to
e. Solace
f. Accordingly

• Textbook: Run-on sentences: Practice 2 page 310 and practice 3 page 312.

• Comma Splice packet: read completely and do the activities on the front and back of the second page

• Run-on sentence packet – Read and do the two exercises on the back of the second sheet. Be sure to read the directions to know what to do.

• Subject and Predicate worksheet – front and back exercises – read the examples before you begin!

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Questions on The House on Mango Street pages 23-45 - Due Monday April 12
Directions: Please answer these questions in complete sentences. Explain the answers clearly and fully. Type your answers out!

“Marin”

1. Who is Marin?
2. Why is she unable to leave her house?

“Those Who Don’t”

3. How do outsiders see Esperanza’s neighborhood? How does Esperanza feel when she visits other neighborhoods?

“There was an Old Woman She had So Many Children She Didn’t Know What To Do”

4. Why does Rosa Vargas cry every day?


“Alicia Who Sees Mice”
5. How does Alicia’s father treat her efforts to get an education?