The House on Mango Street Project

Project: The Hood
Objectives:
• Students will interpret their neighborhood through
group activity.
• Students will develop a greater awareness of their
environment through analyzing the interpretations of others.
• Students will provide details about a particular character to
increase understanding and sensitivity.


Activity:
Collage – Through the many vignettes in The House on Mango
Street, Sandra Cisneros creates a mosaic of the different people
in Esperanza’s neighborhood.


The class will be divided the class into four groups.

Each person in each group will create a piece of art about the people in their own
neighborhoods through one of the following mediums: mural,
poetry, sound/music, and movement/dance.

Each group will present its work to the others.

Writing Project – Identify one person in their
neighborhood whom they would like to know more about. Write a character portrait using what they know about the person and also imagining what they don’t know.

The following questions can be used as guidelines for their writing:
• How does this person walk? What does s/he wear?
• How many people are in this person’s family?
• Describe his/her relationship with parents.
• Does s/he work and if so where?
• What are his/her plans and dreams for the future?
• Does s/he have any regrets? Any secrets?