"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros |
About Sandra Cisneros |
Click and open the following file. This is a short story by Sandra Cisneros. I will read it aloud for everyone today, and you will work in your normal groups and go through the story questions and discuss.
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Sandra Cisneros was born in 1954 and is a Chicana novelist. Her writing is often influenced by personal experience. Sandra has received multiple awards for her writing. She has been a teacher, a counselor, college recruiter, and poet.
*Chicana is the chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States |
Discussion Questions
- Briefly go over what the story is about. What happens in the story?
- How does the sweater affect Rachel?
- Whose perspective is the story being told?
- How might the story look from another student's perspective? (or the teacher's)
- Is the sweater as big of a problem as Rachel makes it out to be?
- How is Rachel's age shown in this story? How does she act and react?
- What do you think her reactions suggest about her character?