Mango Street Anticipation Guide

_____________________________Anticipation Guide for Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street Before reading: In the space to the left of each statement, place a check mark if you agree or think the statement is true. During or after reading: Add new check marks or cross through those about which you have changed your mind. Keep in mind that this is not like the traditional “worksheet.” This is a critical thinking exercise, so it will require some work. Use the space under each statement to note the pages where you are finding information to support your thinking. _____ 1. Age discrimination has largely been eliminated. _____ 2. Gender discrimination has largely been eliminated. _____ 3. Race discrimination has largely been eliminated. _____ 4. Class discrimination has largely been eliminated. _____ 5. It is not a threat to the traditional American way of life that California has a population with a Hispanic majority. _____ 6. To Kill a Mockingbird shows that white Americans in the South will side with the very worst white person over the very best black person—that would still happen today, 50 years later. _____ 7. A book that is taught in many colleges is all right to read/study/analyze in high school. _____ 8. Illegal immigrants should be hunted and deported by “Dog” and other bounty hunters. _____ 9. The Ku Klux Klan should be allowed a voice just like any other organized group in America. _____ 10. Illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay, but disallowed to get driver’s licenses. _____ 11. Inner city schools are just as good as those in the suburbs and rural areas. _____ 12. “Diversity—it’s what we have in common” is a great slogan for Sioux Falls to be advertising everywhere. _____ 13. Similes help make the reading/listening/speaking/writing experience better.

_____ 14. Sex education should be learned from friends and magazines. _____ 15. Some people simply cannot/will never change. _____ 16. 15 is too young to be having consensual sex. _____ 17. Poverty is something anyone can pull themselves out of. _____ 18. English should be made our “national language.” _____ 19. Learning Spanish is 100 times more valuable than learning German. _____ 20. Novels can be written poetically. _____ 21. Mexico is a great vacation spot. _____ 22. People judge you by what you wear. _____ 23. People judge you by where you live. _____ 24. People judge you by what you drive. _____ 25. One can learn a lot from a poor Hispanic girl; and Chicago would be a great place to grow up.