Thursday and Friday

We had a look at a few more chapters of HMS. Specifically, we compared the chapter "Four Skinny Trees" with the Tupac Shakur poem "The Rose that Grew from Concrete." Students also began work on a character analysis assignment on Esperanza (below) which is due Monday.

Directions: 
1) Put yourself into Esperanza’s place at the end of "Four Skinny Trees."  Create an open mind diagram (just an outline of a head) and fill it with objects, images, symbols and quotations from the book so far to provide a picture of who Esperanza is, what might be going through her mind, what is important to her, what influences her.

• You must include at least TWO quotations in your open mind.
• Be sure to cite each quotation with the page number on which it appears.

2) On the back of this sheet write a paragraph explaining what you drew and wrote inside the open mind.