_____________________________Anticipation Guide for Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street

Before reading: In the space to the left of each statement, place a check mark if you agree or think the
statement is true.

During or after reading: Add new check marks or cross through those about which you have changed your
mind. Keep in mind that this is not like the traditional “worksheet.” This is a critical thinking exercise, so
it will require some work. Use the space under each statement to note the pages where you are finding
information to support your thinking.

_____ 1. Age discrimination has largely been eliminated.

_____ 2. Gender discrimination has largely been eliminated.

_____ 3. Race discrimination has largely been eliminated.

_____ 4. Class discrimination has largely been eliminated.

_____ 5. It is not a threat to the traditional American way of life that California has a population with a
Hispanic majority.

_____ 6. To Kill a Mockingbird shows that white Americans in the South will side with the very worst
white person over the very best black person—that would still happen today, 50 years later.

_____ 7. A book that is taught in many colleges is all right to read/study/analyze in high school.

_____ 8. Illegal immigrants should be hunted and deported by “Dog” and other bounty hunters.

_____ 9. The Ku Klux Klan should be allowed a voice just like any other organized group in America.

_____ 10. Illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay, but disallowed to get driver’s licenses.

_____ 11. Inner city schools are just as good as those in the suburbs and rural areas.

_____ 12. “Diversity—it’s what we have in common” is a great slogan for Sioux Falls to be advertising
everywhere.

_____ 13. Similes help make the reading/listening/speaking/writing experience better.

_____ 14. Sex education should be learned from friends and magazines.

_____ 15. Some people simply cannot/will never change.

_____ 16. 15 is too young to be having consensual sex.

_____ 17. Poverty is something anyone can pull themselves out of.

_____ 18. English should be made our “national language.”

_____ 19. Learning Spanish is 100 times more valuable than learning German.

_____ 20. Novels can be written poetically.

_____ 21. Mexico is a great vacation spot.

_____ 22. People judge you by what you wear.

_____ 23. People judge you by where you live.

_____ 24. People judge you by what you drive.

_____ 25. One can learn a lot from a poor Hispanic girl; and Chicago would be a great place to grow up.