Work Due Week of April 19

April 19 and 21
Date Work Due
4/19

Monday School Shooting Reading – handout. Answer questions: Reacting to the Reading, Reacting to Words, Reacting to Ideas, and Reacting to Pattern. Type out and answer in complete sentences.

One other question to answer: What is the main idea in the article?

House on Mango Street read 47-66 and answer the questions below.

4/21

Wednesday
Final Draft of Human Rights Essay

Run-on sentence quiz

Vocabulary Quiz on these words:

a. Allotment
b. Inevitably
c. Conundrum
d. Succumb to
e. Solace
f. Accordingly

And then four of these 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



House on Mango Street Questions
Pages 47-66
Directions: Please answer these questions in complete sentences. Explain the answers clearly and fully. Type your answers out!


“The First Job”
Describe what happens to Esperanza on her first day at work.

“Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark”
Why does Esperanza’s father cry? How does his crying make her feel?

“Born Bad”
What happens to Aunt Lupe?

“Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water”

What does psychic tell Esperanza?

Why is she disappointed? What does she want?

“Geraldo No Last Name”
Why does Geraldo have no last name?