1. Straw Into Gold Bellringers And vocabulary
Sandra Cisneros
Straw Into Gold Bellringers
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2. Take a red Prentice Hall textbook from underneath your desk
Take a red Prentice Hall textbook from underneath your desk. Turn to page 1126
Read the biography of Sandra Cisneros.
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
1. What motivated Sandra Cisneros to become a writer?
2. Read the title of Cisneros’s essay on page Consider her biography. Make predictions about the subject of the essay.

3. Also, be sure to refer to the text to demonstrate your point.
Imagery: descriptive or figurative language used to make word pictures for the reader, also called sensory details.
Choose a paragraph with imagery in Cisneros’s essay on page 1128 of the Prentice Hall textbook.
Explain in a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) how the imagery adds support to the main idea of her paragraph.
Be sure to explain what you think is the main idea of the paragraph you have chosen.
Also, be sure to refer to the text to demonstrate your point.

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primary source
secondary source
optimism
pessimism
Please write these words down on your vocabulary sheets. Your completed vocabulary sheets are due Monday, September 17, 2012.