As you can see, I am on a field trip today. Please catch up by doing the following:
If you have not completed your portfolio, please do so today!
If you handed it in but it could use improvements, please do so today!
If you owe any missing work, please complete it today!
All caught up? Write a creative piece for extra credit!
Please do something productive in the lab today!
Here is an assignment you can work on if you don't have any extra credit ideas:
Creative Writing Project: The House on Mango Street
As Sandra Cisneros tells us in The House on Mango Street, “You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.” Through her writing, we learn about Cisneros intimately because of her detailed, personal writing. Choose one (or more of the topics below to write about!)
The topics that you choose to write about will parallel those in The House on Mango Street. You will choose from the following topics:
Your name
Your neighborhood
Extended Metaphor: You as a plant
What’s expected of males and females in our society
Game/ Toy from childhood
Time you got in trouble
Time you saw someone else get in trouble
Advice from an adult
Your dreams versus your reality
A time you made fun of someone and now regret
Positive school story
Negative school story
Born _____ (You fill in the blank!)
Your first job
A holiday or birthday memory
A tattoo you’d get and why
