Reading Activity #2
Read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Grade 9 Holt, pgs. 614-618.
Complete the following graphic organizer.
Text from The House on Mango Street
"The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don't
have to pay rent to anybody....."
How this piece of text
supports or contradicts
Esperanza's American Dream
"Our house would be white with trees around it, a
great big yard and grass growing without a fence.
This was the house Papa talked about when he
held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama
dreamed up in the stories she told us before we