Teacher Resources
Read, Write, Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/
This website provides information regarding different strategies that teachers can use when teaching reading and writing in their classrooms.
Random House for High School Teachers
http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679734772&view=tg
This website gives information on how to approach teaching the novel, TheHouse onMango Street. It provides teachers with different themes and topics for discussions to implement within the class along with accompanying activities.
Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/cisneros.html
Web English Teacher provides many examples of sample lesson plans for many different units. This particular site gives teachers many sample units/lessons regarding the novel The House on Mango Street.
Vocabulary
http://www.vocabulary.com/
This site contains many different strategies that teachers can use to help teach vocabulary words within their lessons. It provides a variety of activities and memorizing techniques that would be beneficial to students.
Books and Writers
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/salinger.htm
This website supplies teachers with background information on J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye.
References
Alice Lee, Jefferson Middle School English Teacher- Provided Brainstorming Handout
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Contemporaries,
1984.
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1991
http://www.randomhouse.com/highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679734772&view=tg
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/quizzes15/janannnicholson/MangoStreet.html
http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/pahokeemiddlesrhigh/resources/MangoQuiz.PDF
http://www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/pahokeemiddlesrhigh/resources/MangoQuizAK.PDF
http://www.studyguide.org/where_I'm_from_poem.htm
http://www.swva.net/fred1st/wif.htm
http://www.turksheadreview.com/library/texts/kincaid-girl.html
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-hair-5/
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story
http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-2004/sorrowful-woman.pdf
http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/standards.htm
http://www.wiziq.com/educational-tutorials/presentation/7916-Murdoch-Powerpoint-The-Catcher-in-the-Rye
http://www.bryantmcgill.com/World_Poetry/~R/Robert_Burns/Robert_Burns_Coming_Through_The_Rye.html
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/introconslu.html
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/intros.htm
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/paperassignments/a/introsentence.htm
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/introductions.html
http://www.writingcentre.ubc.ca/workshop/tools/intro_p.htm
