MeadowIPP

=Unit Planner=

Critical Content/Concept Web

 * Unit Theme**: Making Cross-cultural Connections Concerning Family
 * Conceptual Lens:** Connections
 * Unit Length:** About Five Weeks


 * ===Unit Overview=== ||
 * The House on Mango Street is a text that allows readers to view the life of a Chicana female who grows up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. Through a series of seemingly disconnected vignettes, the reader is given snapshots of what it is like to grow up Hispanic and disadvantaged. It is a clear invitation for students to write their own vignettes connected to the themes Cisneros uses to engage her reader. The overlying theme is growing up, but smaller themes within are: family, neighborhoods, gender, self worth, approval, aspirations, the inevitable (or what they feel is inevitable), and disappointment. Reading this book and reflecting on one’s own childhood is a way for students to make connections with each other and connections with people from other cultures. ||


 * English ||  ||   ||   || Second Language ||   ||   ||
 * * Perspective
 * Voice
 * Personal Writing
 * Unique and Universal Experiences
 * Figurative Language ||  ||   ||   || * Translating a Text to Spanish
 * Reading a Text in Spanish
 * Descriptive Language Translations
 * The Role of the Mexican American in the United States ||  ||   ||

Designer(s): Meadow Sheldon and Lisa Dalrymple

 * MSAD #9 - District Mission Statement**

MSAD No. 9 is committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and accepting environment where students can explore and develop their creative and intellectual abilities. We shall educate students, promote their self-esteem, and encourage them to achieve their maximum potential. Students will demonstrate the ability to solve problems and to be self directed life-long learners. As productive members of our society students will demonstrate compassion and ethical judgment. Adopted January 11, 1994