1. 4) Are you superstitious?
Do Now:
Free Write
4) Are you superstitious?
Why/why not? Are there only certain times you are? What are your thoughts on Esperanza being this way?

2. October 3, 2017
Objective: to solidify our understanding of Esperanza’s reactions to death and accurately prep for the HOMS quiz.
Opening: Free Write
Work: “Geraldo No
Last Name”
Closing: Review for quiz

3. -Content/general understanding
Homework
Quiz tomorrow!!!
-Metaphor
-Simile
-Personification
-Imagery
-Content/general understanding

4. “Geraldo No Last Name”

5. Quiz Review!

6. Metaphor Comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
Something is something else

7. My mother’s hair...is the warm smell of bread before you bake it.
Metaphor Examples
My mother’s hair...is the warm smell of bread before you bake it.
Meaning: hair smells good, familiar, etc.
2. Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.
Meaning: Esperanza is being held back when she wants to be free

8. Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
Simile
Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

9. Simile Examples My feet swell big and heavy like plungers.
Meaning: her feet swell up very large and thick.
whose momma is as wide as a boat...
Meaning: the mom is very big and fat.
3. Can’t you see they smell like a broom.
Meaning: they smell dusty, stale, bad.

10. Giving humanistic qualities to an inanimate object
Personification
Giving humanistic qualities to an inanimate object

11. Personification Examples
And me, my hair is lazy.
Meaning: the hair does not do what it is supposed to.
2. Our house with its feet tucked under like a cat.
Meaning: the house seems almost shy and withdrawn, like a cat.

12. Imagery
Using words that are so vivid, they create a clear picture in the reader’s mind.

13. Imagery Examples
The baby’s feet had ten tiny toes, pale and see-through like a salamander’s, and these he popped into his mouth whenever he was hungry.
2. Her T.V. is color and big and all her pretty furniture made out of red fur like the teddy bears they give away in carnivals. She has them covered in plastic.

14. Content Info
House vs. home
Gender roles
“Maturity” as a theme