Latino vs. Latina Writers

The House on Mango Street teaches us to recognize the social expectations and realities of different ethnic communities. Even with the Latino community, as represented in Cisneros's work, the expectations are not equivalent for all people. Today, we read some of Juan Felipe Herrara's poetry about a Chicano boy.

Tomorrow, we will compare this experience to the feminist perspectives of Cisneros's works, as shown in these Makers video clips and NPR article. Students will then be using their own forms of organization to demonstrate comparisons and knowledge from reading selections from "No Speak English" through "What Sally Said."

EXTRA REMINDER: Second vignette draft due WED!