Good Morning!

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

Have fun!