1. My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn
Sandra Cisneros

2. Author
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago but spent most of her childhood and youth moving back and forth between Chicago and Mexico. By addressing themes of identity, poverty, and gender in lyrical and sensual language, she has become one of the nation’s most well known and respected Chicana authors.

3. Talk to the Text Asking questions Predicting Visualizing
Making connections
Summarizing
Reflecting and relating
Evaluating
Revising meaning
Forming interpretations
clarifying

4. Character Analysis
Write a 2 chunk paragraph for each character, analyzing their appearances, behaviors, and personalities.

5. Character Analysis Consider how the author discloses the character:
 By what the character ways or thinks.
 By what the character does.
 By what other characters say about him/her.
 By what the author ways about him/her.
 The short form for this is STAR (says, thinks, acts, reacts).

6. How would you describe Cisneros's style in "My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn"? Why do you think Cisneros makes some of the linguistic and stylistic choices that she makes in that story?