1. The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros published 1984

2. Who am I? The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong -- not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

3. The House on Mango Street

4. ”As a writer, Cisneros is known for the vividness and vitality of her prose and her ability to capture working-class Mexican-Americans with immediacy and poignancy, weaving together their voices quickly and lyrically. Mango Street is a novel, but it is made up of bursts, with chapters often only a few paragraphs long. As Cisneros says simply, "I'm a miniaturist," meaning the scale of her work is small but intense.”

5. Her Writing Style ”Cisneros' stories often have narrators who need to speak, who feel they have to fight to be heard.” She writes in a “patch work quilt” style These vignettes add up, as Sandra Cisneros has written, “to tell one big story, each story contributing to the whole–like beads in a necklace.” We are going to attempt to find out what this necklace says.

6. The story behind The House on Mango Street Cue Interview http://www.powells.com/biblio/17- 9780679734772-0

7. My Name http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.ph p?storyId=102900929 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.ph p?storyId=102900929 Read by Sandra Cisneros

8. The Writing Process

9. The House on Mango Street http://static.salon.com/mp3s/cisneros1.mp3

10. Chicana A Mexican-American woman.