1. Essential Question: What is the importance of laughter in life?
“Our Good Day”
Essential Question: What is the importance of laughter in life?
Objective: Students will read “Our Good Day” from The House on Mango Street and respond to open-ended question.

2. Quickwrite
Quick Write: Describe one of your best days. Explain what happened and how it made you feel.

3. “Our Good Day” Briefly describe Lucy and Rachel.
Why do you think Esperanza likes them?

4. “Our Good Day”
Why do you think Esperanza decides to buy the bicycle with Lucy and Rachel, knowing she will make Cathy “mad forever”?

5. “Our Good Day”
What does Esperanza learn about herself and the kinds of friends she wants to have?

6. “Our Good Day”
What is the effect of the simile “they smell like a broom”?

7. “Our Good Day”
What is the effect of the metaphor used to describe the bicycle?

8. “Our Good Day”
What do we learn about Mango Street from this chapter?

9. Friendship Quiz
Quiz: Go to this website and take the Friendship quiz:
In the summary, write a paragraph about whether or not the quiz was an accurate description of you as a friend.