Read the following short story carefully. Then write an essay analyzing how the author, Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques to characterize Rachel.
Finally, in period 6, we read, scored and discussed some essays written in 1995 on this prompt.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Thursday and Friday
We have spent the past two days working with Sandra Cisneros' short story "Eleven." We started by reading the story together and discussing our initial reactions. Students then marked and labeled figurative language and stylistic techniques on their copies (for homework), which we then discussed in class. Next, students were asked to plan an essay in 8 minutes based on this prompt (for extra credit, students may actually write the essay):
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